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Jonathan M. Hyman ’08, a student promoting summer study abroad with OIP, said he spent two months in Japan doing intensive language study...
...These leaders have spent decades focusing solely on expanding the welfare state rather than aiming their criticism at poor parenting, bad schools, and high crime rates, the author contends. And Williams is also right when he notes that Sharpton, Barry, and James are all veterans of dubious, racially divisive campaigns, and that their policy accomplishments are virtually non-existent...
...errs badly by making virtually no mention of more promising black leaders like Senator Barack Obama, a politician so scholastic and intellectually-serious that he spent a decade teaching law at the University of Chicago. Two years ago, the charismatic Illinois Democrat stood before an audience of millions and proclaimed, “Children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations, and turn off the television sets, and eradicate the slander that a black youth with a book is acting white.” Such a message, one would think, should be music to Williams?...
...second time, and he never returned. (Apple eventually picked up his BA from Columbia's School of General Studies—which, according to this Spectator article, appears to be a haven for dropouts.) But the Prince dregs up what it can of Apple's time on campus, spent almost exclusively in the Prince building. The obit recounts how Apple's aggressive chops got him—and the Prince—a world exclusive on the death of Albert Einstein. Kindly, the Prince reprints that article and an image of the front page. (That's quite an exclamation point...
...fear at the moment is that my films might be elitist, which I never intended them to be, and I don’t ultimately think that they are,” he says. Indeed, as important as his VES degree were Bujalski’s extra-curricular hours spent at the Harvard Film Archive or the Brattle. His tastes are broad: ask him what the last good film he saw was, and he’ll tell you “Predator”; ask him about the impact of studio “specialty divisions” like...