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...Older faces were conspicuously absent from the cover. When we South Africans found ourselves faced with the puzzle of getting along in our new democracy, despite our many differences and troubled history, we were able to thread the needle, thanks largely to the good sense that seems to come with a few gray hairs. Young Europeans need to listen to those who are older and wiser. While you may have sought to include this point in your analysis, it was a bit lost amid the flush of beautiful young faces that graced the cover. Greg Ender, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa...
...Different Asian Ethnicities.” CSA President Lydia N. Lo ’09 said before the forum there would not be “a focus on the China-Japan issue” at the event, even though it was prompted by the CSA e-mail discussion thread. She stressed instead an emphasis on the greater East Asian community. The bulk of the early discussion, however, still centered around recent comments by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who refuses to acknowledge that women were forced to work in military brothels during the war. “I think...
...Hist & Lit senior scheduled a Signet date with her mother, in town visiting. Unfortunately, post-thesis revelry left doting daughter hard-up with a hangover, and bemused mom got stood up at lunch...Moving outside the realm of parent mishaps, anal Spee members had an internal e-mail thread that worried about the sexual nature of their “Slow Jamz” party this Saturday. Their solution? Rope off the large bear upstairs to prevent over-sexualized party guests from humping it...A certain former UC Presidential candidate and PSK member seems to be having a hard time...
...that’s the thread in post-hate humor, whether it’s post-homophobia, post-racism, post-anything-not-very-nice. So within post-homophobia, for instance, is the implicit assumption that the teller of the joke (and the audience, too) is not homophobic, which means the joke teller is free to trot out every formerly “offensive” stereotype or sentiment in the service of a good joke...
...They are the catalysts for their respective teams, acting almost like point guards in the way that they manage their offenses. While each can certainly put the puck in the net on her own, the duo’s biggest strengths lie in the passing game, where they thread the lanes to create opportunities for talented scorers such as the Crimson’s Sarah Vaillancourt and the Carson Duggan of the Saints. Chu leads the ECAC with 48 assists and Harbec is second with 42. Still, for all their similarities, the two come from completely disparate backgrounds. Chu honed...