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...into the stereotype of the Ivies being elitist and exclusive, he opened the festival to all colleges nationwide, but kept the name as it was in order to maintain that the focus is still on the Ivies and in order to attract more press. In addition to avoiding the scorn of non-Ivy League schools, the quality of the festival as a whole increases by allowing students from non-Ivies to submit their work because it raises the level of competition and leads to the promotion and celebration of more qualified work...
...fill water buckets from hand pumps?the city has no electricity or running water?and adults engage in the latest pastime: tracking high-flying jets through binoculars. Market prices are unchanged, largely because so many people have fled. But residents are frightened and angry, and much of their scorn is reserved for the Taliban and for its Arab allies in Afghanistan, former mujahedin who have come to fight a jihad. "We have become hostages of the Arabs," says Nek Mohammad, a driver. Several of the Kandaharis I spoke to claim there are thousands of Arabs in the country...
...misogynistic jokes told during a certain final club’s outing displayed “a disconcerting and ironic bifurcation, in which ‘pussy’ hegemonizes discourse as both an object of scorn and an object of lust,” according to Hist & Lit concentrator Joseph F. Brauntuch ‘04. Responded Fox punchmaster Brice I. Wideriver ‘02: “So I was like, ‘what’s that stank smell?’ and it was pussy! I love pussy...
...Milikowsky (the only undergraduate on the committee not associated with the Living Wage Campaign) suggested that we hear from one fewer Living Wage campaigner at tonight’s public forum so that we could have more time for voices from the floor, I was shocked to hear the scorn with which the principled people greeted this modest proposal for a more representative hearing. None of them even voiced sympathy with Milikowsky’s concern that we were not hearing from a cross-section of Harvard students...
Like many modern artists, Neshat incorporates other media in her work. Music and architecture (one of her works used the World Trade Center as a backdrop) are important in creating her films' poetic tone. But unlike many in her field, she does not scorn commercial moviemaking. "I try not to define for myself whether I'm an artist or a filmmaker," she says, citing Iranian cinema as one of her chief inspirations. "I think film is the most democratic art form...