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...Elsewhere in the museum, I find white people taking a collective dump all over various other facets of Mashantucket Pequot culture. I hear a number of snide remarks and much repressed laughter during my tour through the museum. While I might ordinarily find such behavior highly reprehensible, here nothing manages to rouse my ire. This is because, in some very important ways, the Mashantucket Pequot's claim of a distinct cultural identity seems somewhat tenuous. The Mashantucket Pequots lack a distinct native language. The representations of modern indigenous language and culture within the museum are largely facsimiles or bastardizations...
...total marks a new record number of College applicants--the ninth such record in ten years...
...will also increase from 50 to 75 the number of "emergency care hours" offered to faculty and staff members for care of children or elderly family members...
Fitzsimmons said that the number of international applicants is also up by 8.2 percent, and African-American applicants are up 8.6 percent...
This fall, the admissions office also received 6,042 early applicants--another record number. Harvard accepted 1,137 applicants, turned down 220 and deferred the rest for the regular admissions cycle...