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...IMUS, radio host, in one of many apologies for calling members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" after they lost the national championship; MSNBC and CBS radio suspended the shock jock for two weeks...
...this for Don Imus: the man knows how to turn an economical phrase. When the radio shock jock described the Rutgers women's basketball team, on the April 4 Imus in the Morning, as "nappy-headed hos," he packed so many layers of offense into the statement that it was like a perfect little diamond of insult. There was a racial element, a gender element and even a class element (the joke implied that the Scarlet Knights were thuggish and ghetto compared with the Tennessee Lady Vols...
...Harvard’s first-ever loss to Cornell. Asked if his announcement affected the squad in the loss, Graham said, “It might have, who knows. It shouldn’t have. You never know in this sport.” Tuesday’s announcement shocked freshman Lena Litvak, who Graham recruited to Harvard last year. Returning back to the Yard after practice, Litvak found herself besieged by recruits anxious to know what Graham’s departure meant for the team. Mukundan hopes the team will absorb the shock and move...
...considering that I am already the “Funniest Boy in the School,” as declared by the trophy that I was awarded on “Everyone Wins a Trophy Day” in Mrs. Duffy’s second grade class. Well, it may shock you to learn that not everyone thinks my humor writing is all that and a bag of potato chips, as evident by the hordes of negative emails that I receive that are of similar quality and length as a typical senior thesis. But I don’t take these...
...consulting firm. It advises companies - including some French multinationals - on how to deal with ethnic diversity in their workforce. "Going abroad was like an exorcism," he says bluntly. Jozan spent five years working in Germany after college before moving back to France - only to get a big shock; the place seemed cliquey, introspective and stuck in a rut. So he quickly left again, taking a career break to do an M.B.A. at the London Business School, which happens to be just down the road from Senni's basement office. He says he expects to stay on in London for work...