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...with that life is up to you”—provide a doctrine equal in relevance to the religious demand to surrender the self to Jesus. Madea surrenders herself to no one; this is both her blessing and her curse.Watching the movie is a frustrating task for Perry fans and a disappointing one for newcomers hoping to learn what all the buzz is about. While Perry’s movies are often preachy, their moral messages have always been intertwined with a good amount of irony and humor, creating a balanced tension. Unfortunately, the poor structure...
...American Slang, and the Oxford English Dictionary in the first chapter serve as early signals of McGinn’s need for filler. The way McGinn delves into the concept also seems a little imbalanced. For about 30 pages of the 80-page text, he concerns himself with the task of explaining just why the obscenity of the term is integral to its meaning—barely squeezing significance out of the parallels between the words “fucking” and “mindfucking.” A select few of these parallels provide insight into...
...freshman is lucky enough to get a lot of action in his first year at college—but on the Harvard men’s basketball team, the novices are seeing a lot of playing time. Six first-years, who represent half of the team, inherited the mammoth task of supporting a squad plagued by injury. This weekend, there are only eight healthy players on the roster—not an unusual circumstance for the Crimson this season—and Harvard continues to juggle around the health of the upperclassmen. “We knew coming into...
...This week's new spate of color-coded dissent underlines not only the political instability that has marked Thai politics for several years now but also the tricky task of what to wear in Bangkok. Thailand is a country obsessed by color scheme. In Bangkok, the hues people wear can indicate everything from their political leanings to the days on which they were born. According to Thai tradition, each day of the week is assigned a color. Born on a Monday? Your lucky color is yellow, as is the case for the country's King Bhumibol Adulyadej, the world...
...task will not be easy. In its effort to control the escalating crisis, the army reasserted its power this week, encircling the BDR headquarters with tanks and moving soldiers into position around it. As army helicopters hovered over the building throughout the day, the mutineers shot at them, demanding the tanks and troops be withdrawn before they would agree to any further talks. So far, most of the other BDR camps around the nation have been calm, but not all of them. In Khulna, a city in southern Bangladesh, the BDR soldiers, inspired by their colleagues' revolt, took control over...