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...land where history is slow to evaporate, the events that unfolded in Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981 still hang thick in the air. i.r.a. prisoners, who were demanding political instead of criminal status, began a series of hunger strikes to get it. The British government refused to budge. So, one by one, 10 men starved themselves to death. The macabre drama was a low point of mutual, willful intransigence in the battle between the British state and Irish republicanism, and provoked the province to some of its worst bloodshed. The ghost of Bobby Sands, the first...
Wilsey's parents' divorce is not a quiet family matter. Owing to the couple's wealth and status (his father is a dairy tycoon, his mother a society columnist), the details are splashed all over their hometown San Francisco newspapers. Not long after, his mother tries to enlist her 11-year-old son in a suicide pact. With preternatural calm, the boy resists. The incident, however, does not leave him unharmed. With both parents too self-absorbed to offer stability or guidance, Wilsey, an editor at the literary journal McSweeney's, careens among boarding and reform schools, a journey...
...offered a palate cleanser, a detoxification, in the form of Stuart Samuels' documentary Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. It focuses on six films - El Topo, Night of the Living Dead, The Harder They Come, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Pink Flamingos and Eraserhead - that earned cult status in the 70s through midnight screenings at venues like Ben Barenholtz's Elgin Theatre in Manhattan...
Truth be told, all freshmen have a loathing/self-loathing complex for Annenberg. We all know the feeling—excluded from House life and ostracized in the Yard, the ‘Berg becomes a depressing and degrading reminder of the underling status of a freshman. And that’s before you even get to the food: after waiting in line, thanks to the Ec 10 lecture that just let out, you find hamburgers and hot dogs that have been stewing in their own juices for an hour. Yesterday’s chicken appears in the chow mein or fajitas...
...upperclassmen wouldn’t be the only people to benefit. Freshmen would spend that night in the houses, forgetting their first-year status and chowing down on better food. It would also provide an opportunity for increased interaction between the yard and the houses, something that is currently lacking despite the best efforts of the prefect program...