One year ago, the National Football League’s Detroit Lions and San Francisco 49ers each held a 1-5 record and were not going anywhere with their seasons. The 49ers haven’t tasted the playoffs since 2002, back when Barry Bonds had just set the single season homerun record in San Francisco for the Giants. The Lions go…
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the sexual harassment allegations Anita Hill made against current Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas during his confirmation hearing. Distinguished speakers, including Hill, who The New York Times credits as “personally responsible for revitalizing feminism,” came to talk to the over 1,000 people in attendance at Hunter’s all-day conference…
The summer of 2011 loomed as a critical moment in sports, an uncertain time period pitting the owners of two of the most popular sports leagues in the world against world-class athletes. The differences presided over a myriad of issues, including revenue splits, salary caps and guaranteed contracts. In what was termed “billionaires vs. millionaires,”…
Over the summer, I was taking an Intro to Computing (C++ programming) class at City College. One Sunday morning in the middle of the summer semester, I awoke at 5am due to a pesky mosquito. Unable to fall back asleep, I checked my phone and found my friend in China was on AIM. I couldn’t…
We’ve all had this moment: one instant we’re too tired or distracted to think about the words coming out of our mouths and the next thing we know, we’ve said something that, to put it lightly, doesn’t exactly reflect that brilliant, intellectually stimulating side of ourselves. Ever wish you could change history to erase that…
The name Guinness is known widely in the U.S. for beer, not for high fashion. With a new exhibit on Daphne Guinness at the Fashion Institute of Technology’s museum, that may soon change. Daphne is an heiress to the Guinness brewery fortune, but she is also a member of the International Best Dressed List Hall…
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