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...with “If U Seek Amy” that Britney reaches the climax of her carnal-quest. The not-so-thinly veiled euphemism of the title does not even make sense in the context of the other lyrics. While describing Amy, Brit’s hard partying alter ego, the pop tart simply declares that, “All of the boys and all of the girls are beggin’ to if you seek Amy.” Get it? This patent sexuality, shocking even for Britney, distracts from the staler elements of the record. Throughout, Brit?...
...platforms of Undergraduate Council presidential candidates promise academic change. They promise to alter the way freshman courses are graded and to extend the deadline to add or drop courses. Two of the insider tickets have platform points that would mean major changes in the Registrar’s office. The platform of Andrea R. Flores ’10 suggests changing freshman grading to “pass/no record”, similar to the system at MIT. Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10 advocates in his presidential platform extending the add/drop deadline from five weeks to eight weeks. Both...
...trapped in the minutia and numbers and not get out there and do the recruiting that we need to do,” she said. David E. Gee, one of the consultants involved in the search, also told the committee that recalibrating the results would not alter the recommended characteristics significantly. Schuster added that the results will be recalibrated and put on the Web. The numerical data collected by the consulting firm will also be posted online, though individual written responses from community members will not. The list was amended slightly by the School Committee, which added one characteristic?...
...Resizing the business will alter the number of nameplates that the Detroit Three market and the number of dealers that sell them. GM will sell or close Saturn. Pontiac and Saab could end up joining Oldsmobile and Plymouth in the hood-ornament graveyard because the cost of supporting a brand with a small market share doesn't make sense, nor does maintaining a dealership network created for an era when Chevy and Buick could support separate distribution systems. GM plans to reduce its dealer count 27%, to 4,700. "Certainly, having seven or eight brands for 25% of the market...
...Rhee came highly recommended by another prominent school reformer: Joel Klein, chancellor of New York City's schools. And Rhee was once a teacher--in a Baltimore elementary school with Teach for America--and the experience convinced her that good teachers could alter the lives of kids like Rhodes...