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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this gathering, Harvard juniors danced with people more than twice their age, and conversation was just as likely to be held in Creole or Spanish as in English...
Besu said she remembers watching the show as a little girl with her grandfather. "It's basically how she learned English," she quipped, "because we are originally Cuban...
...Tang Mountain, where according to legend (his), he was received by kung fu masters at several monasteries. As Diggs exited a Shaolin temple, he says, a crowd of several hundred children awaited him. He proceeded to communicate the only way he knew--by rapping. "They didn't speak English, but I blew their minds and they all came asking for autographs and pictures," says Diggs, who, under the pseudonym RZA, is the leader of rap's Wu-Tang Clan. "That's how it goes in China. They may not sell our records in Beijing, but kids in the remote areas...
Take DeLong's experience, multiply it a few thousand times in schools across the state, and it isn't surprising that at her campus this year, the freshman class is nearly 61% female. In a freshman English tutorial, small clusters of men sit quietly as women dominate class discussions. But outside class, the mood on campus is distinctly male friendly. Tyler Willingham, social chair of the Sigma Nu fraternity, observes that at parties, even guys without dates can choose from "many beautiful women...
...girls who had the hots for Russell Crowe on the set of Proof of Life. If anybody even made goo-goo eyes at the guy, she'd have them on the next plane out... I tend to luck out when picking paper topics. For my junior paper for English, I wrote on American Psycho, handing it in a couple weeks before the movie came out. Now, just as I'm immersed in thesis work on postmodern fairy tales and a book called Wicked by Gregory Maguire, I get word that ABC is running the miniseries of the novel...