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Down-on-their-luck FBI agents, Kevin (Shawn Wayans) and Marcus (Marlon Wayans) Copeland bungle an easy assignment escorting kidnapping targets Brittany and Tiffany Wilson (Maitland Ward and Anne Dudek). In a car accident, Brittany and Tiffany receive the tiniest of scratches to their faces, the greatest imaginable travesty, and refuse to go out in public. To keep up appearances, Kevin and Marcus must, obviously, transform themselves with a team of makeup artists and pose as “white chicks” during the biggest days of the social season, Labor Day Weekend...
...wanted to pick serious public figures and juxtapose them with this song,” said the clip’s animation director Molly C. Wilson ’06. “Anything involving dancing white boys is funny...
...best examples of religion as social organizer, according to Binghamton University's Wilson, is early Calvinism. John Calvin rose to prominence in 1536 when, as a theologian and religious reformer, he was recruited to help bring order to the fractious city of Geneva. Calvin, perhaps one of the greatest theological minds ever produced by European Christianity, was a lawyer by trade. Wilson speculates that it was Calvin's pragmatic genius to understand that while civil laws alone might not be enough to bring the city's deadbeats and other malefactors into line, divine law might...
...with their injunctions against theft, murder, adultery and lying, are themselves effective social organizers. Added to that were admonitions to pay taxes, perform civic duties, behave in a civil manner and submit to the authority of magistrates. "You must understand religions very thoroughly in relation to their environments," says Wilson. "And one problem for Calvin was to make his city function...
...result succeeded in living through the Roman persecution; the Jews of the Diaspora moved as a cultural whole through the nations of Europe, finding niches wherever they could but maintaining their identity and kinship by observing the same rites. "All religions become a bit secular," says Wilson. "In order to survive, you have to organize yourselves into a culture...