Word: presentism
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...other sport compares. Coupled with the additional time that student-athletes will be diverted from their studies, these disadvantages are simply too steep a price to pay for postseason glory. The persistent cancerous affects of the money and power that accompany big time athletics at American universities are ever-present. Within the past two weeks, scandals involving recruiting conduct at Indiana University and $300,000 in illicit gifts allegedly received by 2005 Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush while attending the University of Southern California have seen Indiana’s coach dismissed and Bush in court. Of course, we could...
...until they’re out of breath and he’s out of words. The Pulitzer Prize winner’s new collection of short stories, “Dangerous Laughter,” takes the shape of alternate rewritings of the past, chilling renderings of the present, and dystopian predictions of the future. The stories are strung together by the systems of thought and practice that Millhauser elaborates and explores to the point of either inevitable climax or collapse—and often both. Though Millhauser may expand the ideas behind his stories to points way beyond...
...night with the King, Mary’s uncle asks matter-of-factly, “Did he bed you?” Then, “More than once?” Beneath the film’s overt sexuality runs a feminist current that, while not present in the novel, seems glaringly anachronistic. Anne cynically tells Mary that “love is of no value without power,” just after their mother advises Anne to “let the man think that he is in control.” The film departs even further...
...heard a loud crash, and the door slammed.” When Muse walked out of her bedroom into the common room, she said that she noticed that her roommate’s television and laptop were missing. The victim, who declined to comment on the incident, was not present at the time of the robbery, which occurred on the third floor. According to the HUPD report, “the offender is described as a Hispanic male in his 30s, 5’11” in height, weighing approximately 190 pounds, with no facial hair, dark-colored hair...
...Baghdad, where they had no family who might help them. Arriving in the city, they looked around for areas where they might settle as squatters. "The best thing for them is to [get] back to their homes as soon as possible," Odhaib says of the displaced. But at present there are no plans to resettle any of the displaced people Odhaib aids, and many of the sites where they live have begun to look more like emerging slums than temporary tent cities...