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More irritating is the sidelining of the black characters, "Ol' Man River" notwithstanding. One especially grating moment involves a little exchange between Cap'n Andy, the proprietor of the Cotton Blossom, and the wise slave Queenie in which the latter, in response to Andy's grumbling that the balcony seats aren't selling, asks him "What about colored folks?" and launches into a ballyhoo aimed exclusively at said "colored folks." However, both Gretha Boston, who won a Tony award for her performance as Queenie, and Andre Solomon-Glover as Queenie's husband Joe, establish considerable presence that prevents their characters...
...budgetarily and service-wise did not charge alumni. This [new] charge allows us to serve them," said an official at Dartmouth's career services...
...budget, what these wise analysts concluded was the real cost was about one-and-a-half times the charged cost," or close to $45,000, he says...
...When we are ranked No. 1 we say how wise [the U.S. News] editors are, but when we are ranked something else we say they must be mistaken," quipped Dean of Students Archie C. Epps...
...growing up, when I thought about Harvard, I thought of my father, class of 1958. He was not your typical Harvard man of the 1950s. A poor boy from a working-class community in San Diego, he applied only because a wise counselor suggested it. More than 40 years later, he still tells about the day the letter of admission arrived. My grandfather, a house painter, ran to the high school, letter in hand. My father opened it to find he would be spending the next four years in Cambridge. (He also found out later that my grandfather had steamed...