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...psychiatrist and social critic states that "the colonized man who writes for his people ought to use the past with the intention of opening the future, as an invitation to action and a basis for hope." Fanon, who published his treatise in 1961, intended his words to apply to Third World artists struggling to shatter the psychological and metaphysical shackles of European domination. How could he have predicted that, 37 years later, his writings would succinctly summarize the raison d'etre of a new musical movement...
ENGLISH SOCCER FANS Hooligans terrorize Tunisians at World Cup. British history: leave home, mistreat Third Worlders...
...third? A reliable and certainly related topic, "sex. Rounding out the top five were the Spice Girls and "astrology -- and the little ladies didn't stop there. Coming in at No. 6 was sassy, IMF-bashing Malaysian prime minister Mahathir, whose shirtless pose on the cover of Foreign Affairs magazine last month set hearts aflutter the world over. No. 7 was horoscope; No. 8, Microsoft (indicating that Bill Gates's new PR campaign may be having unexpected effects); No. 9 was Malaysia, and at No. 10, Time Warner's very own Teen People...
Although financial aid news from the outside world seemed to be shaking Harvard's ivory tower, the near 80 percent yield for the class of 2002 seemed to put the issue to rest. With a record-high yield, the argument seems to go, our financial aid policy does not need to change. But there is a fundamental flaw to this argument. Students who fall into the second and especially the third financial aid categories may simply decide, like my friends, that the cost of a Harvard education outweighs its benefits and may not even apply. However, while the middle...
...people are losing everything to crank--their families, their jobs, their homes, their bank accounts and, perhaps irretrievably, their minds. The potent, man-made stimulant--invented 80 years ago in Japan, issued to soldiers in World War II, prescribed to chunky housewives in the '50s, known to '60s hippies as speed and now sometimes passed out to antsy third-graders with attention-deficit disorder--is, at least in its crumbly, powdered street form, an upper that leads straight down...