Word: standardism
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...title track and lead single “The Monster Is Loose” is baffling in a sickening sort of way. It starts of with Rage Against the Machine-esque guitars, creating a bewildering juxtaposition with Meat Loaf’s standard over-singing. This continues for a full, pummeling seven minutes...
Cohen, who is Jewish, (his fiancée, “Wedding Crashers” star Isla Fisher, is converting for their upcoming wedding, as reported in The Evening Standard earlier this year) may easily escape allegations of anti-Semitism, but that alone doesn’t completely redeem his strategy. His thought process in “Borat” seems to be the following: if we present hyperbolic and laughable racism, viewers will see the absurdity underlying all harmful ethnic stereotypes...
...force to be reckoned with. “For a lot of student organizations, you just think, oh, it’s just a club; all they have is a paper card. The BSA is really serious about everything they do; there’s a standard that shows,” says Jarell L. Lee ’10, the social chair for the Freshmen Black Table, a subset of the BSA. According to BSA leadership, the Black Card asserts the BSA’s rising professionalism.“We’re leaders in the black community...
Breen added that because Breeden is a student, she should be held to a different standard, though not absolved of responsibility. “When people are young they make mistakes, they do stupid things,” Breen said. “So if she’s guilty of plagiarism, she should be given a second chance...
Fortunately, the College does not appear to have a preferred lenders list. Undergraduates who are U.S. citizens or permanent residents with good credit histories can borrow up to the full cost of attendance (less financial aid) through the federal Direct PLUS program in addition to the standard federal direct subsidized and unsubsidized student loans. Other residents of the U.S. or Canada, as well as international students with an eligible co-applicant, can borrow up to full cost through the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority, a non-profit state organization created by the state legislature in 1982 to provide inexpensive student financing...