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Whereas Rowling's works maintain a certain English reserve, Meyer's books are full of gusting emotions. Bella never stops gasping and swooning and passing out and waking up screaming from nightmares. Her heart is always either pounding or stopping. (Bella's histrionics don't feel at all unrealistic. When you're writing about adolescents, melodrama and realism are the same thing.) Rowling labors over her intricate plots, but Meyer's stories never bend or twist or branch. They have one gear, and she guns it straight ahead till the last page. The way she manages the reader's curiosity...
...What gets on the radio is not hip-hop,” Tillet says. “It’s a part of hip-hop. The industry pushes certain artists and not others. There are a lot of artists that do really creative and insightful things. The artists...are a part of a machine, and the machine picks and chooses what it promotes...
...While some artists have released misogynistic yet innovative hip-hop, some argue that this doesn’t condone potentially offensive subject matter. Byron Hurt, director of the film “Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes,” recognizes that while certain songs can have artistic merit and contain negative lyrics, that doesn’t justify misogyny. “We need to have artists second-guess creating lyrics that are anti-woman in the same way that they would second-guess writing something that is anti-Semitic,” Hurt says...
...some fun-seeking juniors, senior year just won’t come soon enough. All year, seniors have been socializing with their classmates at Senior Bar, a suggested itinerary of certain bars to go on any given night. Emulating their elders, juniors have now established their own Junior Bar. “My friends and I started it up on a whim,” said Jade M. Reichling ’09, one of Junior Bar’s founders. “Senior Bar is to reconnect with all the seniors. Why wait until senior year when...
...Clinton Loses Indiana on May 6 and Pulls Out There will be two primaries that day, but North Carolina is considered almost certain to go for Obama, which means Clinton will be putting most of her effort into Indiana. Privately, her advisers concede that it will be difficult to continue in the race if she does not win there...