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...couldn't make up my mind about the Oakland, California, school board's decision last month to certify Ebonics as an official language for black folks, so I decided to consult the experts. I put in a call to the Home for Retired Racial Stereotypes in a black section of Hollywood. The Kingfish answered. "Holy mack'rul dere, Andy, somebody wants to talk 'bout dis 'ere Ebonics. Could you or Tonto tell Buckwheat come to da phone? He de resident expert...
...fulsome section on telephone and recording etiquette includes advice on ending a tedious call (hang up when you are speaking, not the bore) and disconnection (the person who placed the call should re-call). This seems obvious, as does the reminder that an answering machine means you don't have to pick up on every call...
...have become the acceptably trendy cousin of comic books. The film version of Daniel Clowes’ nastily funny suburban epic “Ghost World” charmed the beautiful people and was nominated for an Academy Award in 2000. Graphic novels have gradually eked out their own section in every Barnes and Noble, a corner that is filled to bursting with intrigued readers of every...
...Alex Webb’s contemporary color photograph “Guard at Sugar Plantation, Outside Kampala Uganda,” the collection spotlights more historical subjects such as political campaigning in 1956. The collection is certainly interesting from a photographical and technical perspective, but out of the three sections evokes the least emotional response to the prints. Without a more academic appreciation for photography, the pictures in this section seem oddly juxtaposed, bland and flat. Webb’s photograph in Uganda is one of the most pleasing, yet seems strangely out of place as one of two international...
...Committee on Campus Life and Harvard’s Undergraduate Council (UC) aren’t careful with their next co-sponsored party, they might just resuscitate Harvard’s social scene. Maybe next time they could hide a pile of burritos somewhere in the periodicals section of Widener. Yes, this is the state of fun at Harvard. Still, the real question is whether the Lamont 24/5 party was a celebration of student advocacy, as intended, or a low blood sugar-induced bum rush. It only took a few minutes of watching Harvard students stream out of Lamont with...