May 2013
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“Now all you can do is wait. It must be hard for you, but there is a right time...”
– Haruki Murakami/ The Wind Up Bird Chronicle
“The beauty of things is that they must end.”
– Jack Kerouac
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Columbia University still has 'whites only'... →
rtamerica:
Columbia University still offers a “whites only” tuition fellowship, which is restricted to “a person of the Caucasian race” and may be in violation of the US Constitution, a Manhattan Supreme Court wrote in papers filed Monday.
gingerhaze:
Chinese Police Beat Monk to Death Over Banned... →
sftuk:
Horrific news from Tibet this morning.
“A Tibetan monk found in possession of recordings of speeches by exiled spiritual leader the Dalai Lama has been beaten to death by Chinese police, according to Tibetan sources. Kardo, formerly of the Champa Ling monastery in Chamdo prefecture of the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR), was taken into custody on April 21 at his home in Dzogang (in...
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“In the 101 top-grossing family films…from 1990 to 2004, of the over 4,000...”
– Natasha Walter, Living Dolls: The Return of Sexism, pages 69-70, 2010.
