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...defendant and one-time protégé Shyne? Unlike Puffy, Jamal "Shyne" Barrow, was found guilty on charges of assault, weapons possession and reckless endangerment and is facing the possibility of up to 25 years in prison. When a well-wisher interrupts our conversation to congratulate Puffy and express his concern for Shyne, Puffy says only this: "I'm praying...
...superiority - fair play, discipline, fortitude, teamwork, self-sacrifice, respect for one's opponent and for the keepers of the rules, the will to win but always fairly and squarely. Hence its original importance to the colonized peoples. It was by succeeding on the cricket field that they could express themselves as the equal or the better of their colonizer, and challenge the shabby racism that underpinned colonialism. It is no surprise to C.L.R. James that the earliest campaigners for Trinidad's independence from Britain are its cricket greats, such as Sir Leary Constantine...
...assert her ownership of herself. Boesman is a man frustrated by his inability to be free, crushed by the weight of apartheid. Eventually, after much personal loss, he even uses his fists against Lena's body to ease his own heartache; it is the only way he can express his anger without disrupting "white bossman." But in the eyes and ears of a strange Xhosa tribesman (Willie Jonah), Lena finds truth and independence, and her journey towards wholeness and humanity begins. This three-person cast carries the weight of apartheid and oppression on their tired and bruised shoulders. After...
...Love the Nightlife" in Last Days of Disco; Abba songs punctuating Muriel's Wedding; that inimitable discussion of "Like a Virgin" in Reservoir Dogs; "No More Mr. Nice Guy" in the background as Wiley Wiggins gets paddled in Dazed and Confused; Faye Wong dancing to "California Dreaming" (Chungking Express); Tom Everett Scott hitting the drums too fast but just right in That Thing You Do!; and "Play it Sam. Play 'As Time Goes...
...about their latest book, watching the occasional Game or moving their son into the Yard, alumni rarely return to the Square that was once their own--and rarely seek connection with the students who have taken their place in the classrooms and in the houses. These graduates choose to express their loyalty through money rather than any serious connection to Harvard or, rather, to Harvard as it exists today...