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...crowd at the National Geographic Society - a suitably studious setting - saw it as the world's longest campaign ad. Even as Gore's spokesman circulated, repeating the words "He's not running" so frequently it started to sound like a round, no one wanted to believe...
...ourselves desis." That word basically means countrymen in Hindi, but in Londonstani it seems to embrace any young gangsta wannabe who fancies bling jewelry, designer hooded sweatshirts, Bollywood film divas, high-end mobile phones and senseless violence. A former "coconut" - brown outside, white inside - Jas has given up his studious ways to hang out with a gang of more authentic desis: Hardjit, a well-muscled Sikh who likes to beat up goras and Muslims suspected of fancying Indian girls; sheeplike Ravi, who is overeager to fit in; and angry Amit, tortured by "complicated family-related s___" involving his brother...
...intellectual activity revolves around daytime television," says Marie-Claude Vitali, founder of the Tremplin (Springboard) social association, which assists residents of the projects in Blois. "Kids aren't just failing in school; they're culturally feral." The vicious circle is completed by the widespread view that good and studious behavior brings no better rewards than truancy. Says Djillali Achab, a 31-year-old resident of the Champs Plaisants project in Sens: "Why are kids going to work hard in school, study at home and apply themselves when everyone they know left school at 17 and hasn't been able...
...vending service options for the hours during which the cafe would not be staffed. Reference services will be relocated to the stacks adjacent to the Ginsberg Reading Room on the main level. Beth S. Brainard, director of communcations for Harvard College Library, said the recommendations for a social yet studious atmosphere were consistent with the kind of space Lamont had wanted to offer. Cline agreed. “If you’re looking for comfort [while] having to be miserable studying, you might as well be with your friends,” she said. Cline added that the cafe...
...civil rights could be ‘All the things everybody’s gotten into fights about over jazz.’” This mix of seriousness and humor is indicative of Monson’s working credo: she combines the nuanced, critical eye of a studious intellectual with the uncensored delight of a lover and practitioner of music. Quincy Jones Professor of African-American Music Ingrid Monson did not begin her life expecting to have such a prodigious title, or indeed with any expectations about a life in academia. Monson loved music and was playing...