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What happens when your study abroad experience isn’t the one you wanted? After months away, Otto Fritton PZ ’27 picks up his abandoned column and reflects on the four months he spent in Reims, France. Between cooking with his host mother, playing soccer in the hail and galavanting in a couple of fields, Fritton realizes how hard it is to notice life while yo
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In her latest column, “A Girl’s Guide to Terrible Men,” Bianca Mirica PO ’29 revisits the seductive excess of “Scarface” and the women who expose the insecurity beneath Tony Montana’s power. The post A Girl’s Guide to Terrible Men: Tony Montana’s fragile masculinity appeared first on The Student Life .
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The carriage horses in Central Park have been a part of the New York City tourism canon for over a century. But following the recent deaths of both a tourist and several carriage horses, it might be time to put the practice to rest. Arianna Kaplan ‘27 investigates the history of carriage horses in New York, and determines that the industry is an anachronisti
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In the second installment of her “Off the Shelf” column, Corina Yi PO ’28 reviews K-Ming Chang’s short story collection “Gods of Want.” Featuring cigarette-ad models coming to life, ghost-cousins, shape-shifting daughters, various nameless widows and nine-headed birds, the collection blurs the line between realism The post Off the Shelf: K-Ming Chang reinven
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When columnist Bianca Mirica PO’29 was fourteen, her father decided it was time to watch “The Godfather” together. Years later, Mirica reflects on the iconic film’s male power dynamics, Al Pacino’s face card, and all of “The Godfather”’s unsung heroes — the women. The post A Girl’s Guide to Terrible Men: Men think they invented liking “The Godfather” a
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Nicholas Steinman CM ‘28 doesn’t like sports — but the local impacts of the World Cup have upended his preferred pastime of Los Angeles municipal politics. Steinman dives into the impact the World Cup has had on the local economy, and larger political discourse around the past, present and future of his hometown. The post World Cup brings LA local politics t
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Audrey Green SC ’27 partially praises Netflix’s new sci-fi thriller “The Boroughs” for its novel concept. Moving past the script’s quippy nature and poor execution, the show was thematically provocative, especially for those with a deep-seated fear of being deemed nonsensical. The post Audrey Between Frames: ‘The Boroughs’ contention with ageism is weighed d
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In her first column, Kira Heller ’29 dives into her thoughts about what makes humans distinct amid the rapid growth of artificial intelligence. She uses Notre Dame’s DELTA framework to explore five human qualities that AI can’t replace: dignity, embodiment, love, transcendence and agency. The post What Makes Us Human: Five things AI can’t replicate app
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On Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, one can find a Gucci bag for $60, a Knicks jersey for $30 and a Valentino fragrance for $15. Or at least, that’s what the vendors say. We know that the items are fake. But does it matter? Columnist Arianna Kaplan SC ’27 investigates the illegal counterfeit market in New York and examines the role of our purchasing power in
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"If artificial intelligence replaces every job, humans will face a mass disillusionment. It won’t be the humanist disillusionment we expect — the mythologized anticlimax of humankind, a world where machines outperform us at jobs we thought were uniquely ours," writes Alattar. "Rather, we will realize that those jobs never needed to exist, and more begrudging
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