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Undergraduate Council President Lamelle D. Rawlins '99 said she endorsed the multi-sided nature of the grape discussion...
Saving the Tigers Asian leaders gather in Vancouver to discuss a multi-billion dollar IMF bailout. Will it be enough? Full Story...
Early this year, people nationwide embraced the joys of Badu. Radio stations fixated on the latest X-Scape knock-off and started playing "On & On" in heavy rotation. On the strength of her critically acclaimed, multi-platinum debut album Baduizm, she headlined this year's "Smokin Grooves" tour. Badu was christened the sole female (Adrina Evans anyone?) in the neo-funk pantheon along with D'Angelo, Maxwell and Toni Rich. Her success showed '90s rhythm and blues could be smart, innovative and sexy...
...sure, history is hardly a pristine, purist endeavor. The historian can never completely recreate the past. But he can provide a snapshot or even a panorama of it. History is multi-directional--just as we influence history, so too does history influence us. This is not to deny a standard of historical veracity to which we should aspire. History is a "creative" field in that its purpose is to uncover creatively what occurred in the past, to the greatest degree of accuracy possible...
...course, very easy to bash large multi-million dollar Hollywood studio productions for abusing both history and art. The discrepancy between artistic representation and historical veracity is not new, however. Is there any essential difference between a Shakespeare play involving historical figures, such as Julius Caesar or Henry V, and a Disney or Fox production like Pocahontas or Anastasia...