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Eastwick 1.06: Of Sad Deaths and Boob Sweats.
November 4th, 2009What are boob sweats? Rabia: Exactly what they sound like. Recapping is not nearly as fun now that I actually know their names Rabia accidentally watched waxing scene three times. She’s a good friend. Read More
California Cuisine Part 1
November 3rd, 2009My last post was a stop on the way to California over fall break. This time, I will be discussing some good cheap eats I had around LA and next time will be the fancy ones. Some of the places I ate at were a random Mexican stand at a street fair outside a Children of Bodom concert I went to, Chano’s, fig tree, Panini Café, Roscoe’s House of Chicken ‘N Waffles, and the famed In-N-Out Burger. Read More
How to Lose Friends in Africa
November 3rd, 2009Paul Kagame is one of the West’s favorite African leaders. The current president of Rwanda, he was the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front when it ended the genocide in 1994. He has ruled over the reconciliation of as fractured a country as there ever has been, prevented the nation from falling into a prolonged civil war that once appeared inevitable, and has enjoyed robust economic growth for the last decade and a half. Read More
Seibald '09 Picked for 2010 U.S. Men's National Lacrosse Team
November 2nd, 2009Max Seibald '09, last year's lacrosse team captain and all-around unstoppable force on the lacrosse field, is one of 23 players picked to travel to the FIL World Championship in Manchester, England from July 14-24, 2010. Defenseman Ryan McClay '03 will join Seibald on Team USA. Read More
A Middle Way Forward
November 2nd, 2009In an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll conducted at the end of September, only 11 percent of those polled believed that the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan should be the number one priority of the federal government. These numbers have changed little since then. However, a terrorist attack in the United States or a dramatic turn of events in Operation Enduring Freedom could quickly propel the Afghan War to the forefront of Americans’ minds. Read More
Pumpkin Turkey
November 1st, 2009Every fall I look forward to the reemergence of pumpkin in my life. I wait for the perfect fall day, cold and rainy with the leaves turning to red and orange, to take shelter in Starbucks and indulge in their pumpkin spice latte with a warm pumpkin muffin on the side. Read More
They said it
October 30th, 2009Other Ivy League daily papers seem generally unimpressed with Cornell football this season, and they have good reason. The team is 2-4 and hasn't won since Sept. 26, a 14-12 defensive shootout at Yale. The Harvard Crimson's Loren Amor picked Cornell over Princeton in the paper's weekly Around the Ivies roundup , but wrote that Read More
Illegal Immigration Attitudes: Growth of Bigotry or Legitimate Behavior?
October 28th, 2009With immigration to the US always growing, prejudice and nativist attitudes have skyrocketed, placing immigrant workers life threatening situations. In particular, regions with the greatest degree of documented and undocumented workers have experienced drastically increased violence against immigrants. Read More
In Defense of Sweatshops
October 27th, 2009Sweatshops are pretty easy to hate. They are crammed full of oppressed impoverished people working twelve, or fourteen hours a day in unsafe and unsanitary conditions. They get paid a dollar a day, and have no workplace representation. It’s dangerous, unhealthy, and exploitative. Read More
Eastwick 1.05: The Twitches Get Their Freak On
October 25th, 2009Eastwick, or as Rabia, calls, it, the Twitchie show. Even though there’s no Previously On, I just wanted to say that I’m surprised that ABC is trying to remake The Witches of Eastwick, even though multiple previous attempts have failed. Regardless, I actually find it kind of fun and whimsical, even if the characters are all such cardboard cutouts that I can’t ever remember their names. Read More