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Dear FM Ethicist, Whenever I go home to the Mid-West, I feel really uncomfortable telling people where I go to school. My parents like to flaunt my Harvard degree, but I like my anonymity. Should I ask my parents to stop? Thanks, Confused Dear Confused, We’ve all walked in your shoes. Many times I’ve told my parental units’ friends that I attend Harvard. They stare in shock and awe when I drop that bomb like I’m over Baghdad. They genuflect. They whisper “genius...
...these poets admittedly changed their rhymes as they sold out to that which they had raged against, though they promised, in the words of Jay-Z, “Make my money now / and then back to the streets.” Eminem, despite his Caucasian ethnicity and his mid-West origins, was able to assimilate into the West Coast contingency through his alignment with the legendary Dr. Dre. This young rapper epitomized both the acknowledgement of pop culture with such epic verses as, “Sit me here next to Brittany Spears, shit, Christina Aguillera better switch...
...would be a shame to allow this fascinatingly weird election to intrude upon the holiday. Thanksgiving is supposed to be amiable, bloated, and somnolent. No doubt it will be so, all over America - in those sections of America (the coasts, the upper mid-West) that are colored blue for Gore, and in those vast stretches everywhere else that are red for Bush. But the peace of Thanksgiving tables will inevitably be troubled - red uncles in full howl against blue in-laws. We vacillate between indignation and resignation, and we play with a perplexing intuition that the loser wins...
...competitions offered some of the best opportunities to learn new music, he says. The fiddling contest scene is very popular in mid-west. "If I saw somebody playing a song that I liked, I would just go up to them and ask them to show it to me," he says...
While applications from all regions have risen, Fitzsimmons said that the greatest increases seem to be in the Mid-west and Western regions of the country...