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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...presents. But this movie finds one last spurt to send the characters and the audience out happy. The closing-credits song, the Ronettes? ?Be My Baby,? never seemed more welcome or appropriate. For this is a comedy with the old-time blend of wit and sentiment. Years from now, when you stumble across it on TV, you could persuade yourself that, back in the two-thousand-oughts, they made pretty good movies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Come to Baby Mama | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...that ripple through higher education. But when it comes to investigating its institutional history, the University might do well to take a cue from its peers.Like many venerable American universities, Harvard’s past is tied to slavery: for decades, if not centuries, the University inculcated pro-slavery sentiment and benefitted from funds that were the fruits of the slave trade or slave labor. But unlike many of its peers—such as Brown and Yale—Harvard has never conducted a formal examination of its past. And though the University has no plans to launch such...

Author: By Brittany M Llewellyn and Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Slavery Ties Left Unexplored | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...immediate risk is that China could still be awash in antiforeigner sentiment in August, when Beijing will welcome the world for the Olympic Games. It would take only a couple of instances of violence against foreigners to undo years of official campaigns to make the capital extra-hospitable--coaxing Beijingers to learn English and stop spitting in the streets, for example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why China's Burning Mad | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard’s credit that it both nurtured their anti-slavery, abolitionist sentiment and benefitted from the anti-slavery ferment in New England,” Brophy said...

Author: By Alexandra perloff-giles, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seminar Studies Slave Ties | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

...This election," Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, "is too big to be small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe - that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year. But it was laughable as well. The Pennsylvania primary had been a six-week exercise in diminution, with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama - and Bill Clinton too - losing altitude and esteem on an almost daily basis. Even as he spoke, the former President...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Incredibly Shrinking Democrats | 4/24/2008 | See Source »

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