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...maiden voyage on Saturday morning: a bright yellow helicopter. The flight—one of a series that took groups of three passengers into Boston’s airspace—was the first ride hosted by the Harvard College Aviation Club, which received official student group status this fall. “I’d seen aerial photos, but it was incredible to see it myself,” Hao Sun ’10 said. Following the Charles River, the 10 a.m. flight featured aerial views of Cambridge, downtown Boston, and the Boston Harbor, including such landmarks...
...Line Cinema, flush from the surprise megahit status of the first Lord of the Rings film, bought the rights to the Pullman saga - and promptly started fretting about the God problem. Retain the books' central conflict, and stoke the wrath of America's Christian Right. Delete it, and risk alienating Pullman's fan base, which is not so large here as in Britain. (The books had already been slightly redacted in their U.S. editions, which cut passages about Lyra's budding sexuality...
...preach Jesus.”In his latest work, “The Scandalous Gospel of Jesus: What’s So Good About the Good News,” Gomes criticizes the church and its adherents for straying from Jesus’ message in order to preserve the status quo and gratify immediate self-interest. Following a highly charged national election in which “Jesus” signified the right wing of the Republican Party, such a critique represents a necessary step towards decoupling Christian religiosity and extreme political conservatism. The text is more than just...
...railing against gangster rap and the element of black culture it represents—the “Black KKK,” as he calls it. To Whitlock, the evolution of this genre is a cause of black Americas’ high crime rates and low socioeconomic status. He puts some of the blame for Taylor’s death, as well as the gun violence that plagues the black community, on rap, declaring: “You’re damn straight I blame hip hop for playing a role in the genocide of American black men. When...
...faculty member is worried about being rehired, that kind of person is going to be less likely to tackle courses that are controversial,” Curtis said. “Grad students have the added vulnerability that they may be putting their student status in jeopardy...