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...Centro-Fly, a nightclub in New York City, on any given night in his club someone might engage in an impromptu dance battle. Says Sisk: "It's a lot more interesting to see 700 or 800 people stop to watch two kids challenge each other through dance than to stare at the DJ all night long...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ready, Set, Dance! | 3/29/2004 | See Source »

...Connect students with traditional ways of life by allowing them to use fireplaces in dorm rooms. Better yet, house them all in dorm rooms equipped with fireplaces and then suddenly forbid all fireplace use. In the dead of winter, shivering and cold, students will stare longingly at the empty corner of their rooms where for decades passed fellow undergraduates once curled up for warmth. Ah, traditions! They produce such pleasant memories...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Tradition Envy | 3/24/2004 | See Source »

Back home in New Jersey, fat men didn't bellow songs in his honor. Back home women didn't stare while he shopped, kids didn't knock on his door for his signature, people didn't, as he says, consider their lives complete if they just got a whiff of his cologne. One day last summer Tim Howard was a 24-year-old from North Brunswick who happened to play soccer for a living; supremely gifted and almost wholly obscure. He could walk through his local mall wearing a jersey with his name stitched...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Yank In Manchester | 3/21/2004 | See Source »

...country so assured of its multi-cultural constituency, the U.S. may need to consider revising its greeting protocol. Perhaps a simple, “Hi, how was your flight?” might trump the condemning and suspicious stare which makes you wonder, “Did I leave that C4 in my bag?” But don’t think things get any better after surviving immigration—America’s “foreigner relations” aren’t about to improve. Sure, you escaped the armed guards, fingerprinting and interrogations about...

Author: By Bede A. Moore, | Title: Culturing an Awareness | 3/10/2004 | See Source »

...50’s arrival. Eminem was right when he said they were “juggernauts of this rap shit / like it or not.” The song chugs along inexorably, wiping out any sense of forward propulsion—it only makes you want to stare downwards and crush the floor while 50 mutters commands in everyone?...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Has Hip-hop Come to This? | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

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