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Each act—aptly summarized in titles such as “A Grandmother’s Struggles?? and “Department of Social Services”—is a bittersweet and wryly comical vignette of life on the other side of the tracks. There is a good deal of stereotyping and caricature in the script—complete with rappers, drug dealers, and prostitutes. But considering the BlackCAST actors’ abilities to employ those caricatures to profound dramatic effect, that exaggeration of character was not a bad thing...
...White House, this time at its helm. Over the past two months here in Washington, I have seen her enrapture an audience of evangelicals, command a meeting of the NAACP, and passionately testify before a commission on Hurricane Katrina in a church basement. And though at times she struggles??she still inflects awkwardly when delivering punch-lines and her laugh sometimes seems forced—the mix of her striking intelligence, her newfound confidence in taking political risks, and her personable manner exude a presidential mystique. Already, many Americans feel this aura as the ABC poll suggests...
...thought more about the HIV/AIDS crisis, I began to realize that HIV/AIDS, moreso than most other concerns of our age, sits at the center of a lot of other conflicts and struggles??and in that way, serves as both a peculiar challenge and opportunity. If we are to seriously discuss HIV/AIDS, and more importantly, our responses to it as individuals, communities, or societies, we must necessarily wrestle with issues of sex and sexuality, concepts of masculinity, women’s empowerment, and the relationship between race and moral worth. But these are, of course, some of the more...
...Shocked by the extent of student problems—and Ceder’s struggles??Pertile forwarded the e-mail to University President Lawrence H. Summers...
Improvements in first-year advising would help catch and prevent incipient problems, but inevitably, some students will find themselves in academic trouble in their first semesters. Automatically requiring that these students withdraw, however, will only increase their struggles??such a decision would inevitably coincide with other taxing events in the first-year calendar, such as the selection of blockmates...
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