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...Franz Ferdinand You Could Have It So Much Better; $13.49 These disco-loving Scottish art-school punks spend much of their second album boasting of their badness. Singer Alex Kapranos is blessed with Mick Jaggeresque persuasiveness-Evil and a Heathen and I'm Your Villain would be musts on any syllabus of "Songwriting for Cads"-but he's also growing in ways that suggest depth. The fast songs have more than one musical thought (some even scoot past the 3-min. mark), while the slow ones have the courage to be pretty (Fade Together) and vulnerable (Eleanor Put Your Boots...
...other hand, has struggled in just about every phase of its game since its last win, which came on November 22 at Rhode Island. Harvard must ride the hot hand of leading scorer Laura Robinson (11.3 ppg) if it plans to break its streak upstate. —ALEX McPHILLIPS
...with this series, following Julius Caesar’s rise to power. Its acting is impeccable, its sets extraordinary, and each one hour episode feels like a movie in its own right. Its only flaw is that we have to wait so long for Season Two.—Alex C. BritellFor those of you who don’t frequent UrbanDictionary.com, the term, “Awkward Turtle,” refers to the hand motion one makes at times of situational discomfort—one places one’s hands on top of each other and spins...
...Alex Slack is wrong when he writes in his dissenting opinion (“No Value Added” Dec. 1) that HBS “administrators...did not consult the school’s student leaders until yesterday.” In fact, Professor Rick Ruback, the chair of the MBA Program, was getting together with students long before that. He talked with the student Senate about this matter on Oct. 25. On Nov. 10, he met with the Student Association Academic Committee (the standing committee focusing on these kinds of issues), which recommended a course of action that...
...including 22-11 in the first half. “The first half was absolutely horrible,” Delaney-Smith said. “And that’s all we talked about for three months. So talk is cheap.” —Staff writer Alex McPhillips can be reached at rmcphill@fas.harvard.edu...