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...Appiah, who decided to leave Harvard for Princeton this year, has written extensively on race. In the essay “Illusions of Race” from the collection In My Father’s House, Appiah discusses the racial theories of another famous Harvard academic, W. E. B. Du Bois, Class of 1890. After picking apart Du Bois’ theory and showing the racism that underlies it, Appiah states “the truth is that there are no races: there is nothing in the world that can do all we ask race to do for us. Talk...
...pictures. In the new Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood arachno-human can execute some cool moves as he trapezes above New York City. In these aerial scenes (a combination of acrobatic stunt work and digital derring-do), Spidey zooms and glides and quadruple-somersaults like a one-man Cirque du Soleil troupe, and the movie and the audience soar with him (for a while, anyway) on a great vertiginous ride...
Race is Harvard’s topic du jour. Cornel West’s defection to Princeton, Charles Ogletree’s crusade to win reparations for slavery, and last weekend’s rally supporting diversity are the stuff of debate in dorms and dining halls across campus...
...what of a man who has lost his job and is afraid to share his failure with those closest to him? The hero of Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'emploi du temps) uses his enforced spare time the way he always did: driving his car from Pointless A to Pointless B, sitting in office lobbies, pretending to prepare for that big conference. Vincent (the fascinatingly opaque Aurelien Recoing) still needs to pay the bills, so he dreams himself a bigger job, sells dummy shares in his nonexistent new company to friends and family, dabbles in black-market trading. Finally...
...Richard Wright has been systematically finalized and reduced,” said Rowley, who is also a fellow at the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research...