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...give a grain of rice, send good karma and rate your friends on everything including their hotness, creativity, fashion sense and intelligence. I wasn't merely skeptical - I was annoyed. But I didn't want to be a killjoy - and I love plants - so I went ahead and clicked "Accept...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Suffering From Facebook Fatigue? | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...from now viewers deem over-sized balloon dogs or inflatable flowers passé, then Koons’ work will be essentially discarded. To protect his work from becoming dated, he tries to make every piece as objective as possible. He claims, somewhat counterintuitively, that he achieves this by first accepting himself, then accepting others. “Objective art is learning to look past the self and accept others,” he says. “My needs are as important as your needs. I’m speaking about a form of love.” In other...

Author: By Ama R. Francis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: LINEAR PERSPECTIVE | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...beyond cruel how the Admissions Office announced they would accept no transfers after applications had been composed and recommendations obtained. Imagine if an I-banking firm announced in mid-March that they suddenly wouldn’t need any interns or employees, after candidates had slaved away over résumé building and interviews...

Author: By D. PATRICK Knoth, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Love it: Transfer Students | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...that social changes seem to happen either from the bottom up, with individuals transmitting their shifting ideals to the politicians who represent them (think of King’s 1963 March on Washington), or from the top down, with politicians or courts making sometimes-progressive policies that individuals gradually accept with realigned opinions...

Author: By Ryder B. Kessler | Title: The Emperor’s Boy | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

...Because, it seems, the Bush Administration has other fish to fry. The first is Moqtada al-Sadr, whose movement features a defiant nationalism that is traditionally both anti-American and anti-Persian (although Sadrist elements have been willing to accept help from the Iranians in recent years). Under questioning from Hillary Clinton about the Maliki government's recent abortive offensive against Sadr's forces in Basra, Petraeus admitted that U.S. troops would have provided resources and "different actions" for a more carefully planned attack. An intelligence source told me that the operation had been planned for June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Petraeus Meets His Match | 4/9/2008 | See Source »

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