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...Movie critics by nature are solitary, mulish creatures, addicted to individuality, holding to their own recalcitrant opinions. The awards they give en masse are an annual attempt at consensus. Audiences thus have the rare opportunity to be guided by the collective will of the "experts," not by the blurbs in a movie ad. Heed the wisdom of the majority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Awards Fever: Film Critics vs. the Golden Globes | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Thais will attempt to label you by your appearance and may expect you to behave in ways that they have previously experienced with people similar to you. This is a normal reaction to your strangeness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Englishman in the Land Of Smiles | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Aside from a group of identical stainless-steel sculptures of Mao, created by Qu Guangci in 2003, the exhibition displays no contemporary works, nor does it attempt to explain the link between the paintings and posters on view and the current Chinese art scene that draws so much from them. The label accompanying Chen Yifei's 1972 painting of a single sentry in a monumental landscape, Eulogy of the Yellow River, fails to note that Chen became one of China's most commercially successful artists before his 2005 death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeing Red | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...area, the students decided to light Africa instead. Sierra Leone native David M. Sengeh ’10 says, “I feel it’s a responsibility coming from the less resourceful communities we come from to be able to advocate and implement projects that attempt to solve problems that we experienced.” “If we don’t do it, who else would?” he adds. The microbial fuel cell technology Lebônê is using was developed by Peter Girguis, a professor of organismic and evolutionary biology...

Author: By Elizabeth C. Pezza, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Out of the Yard, Into Africa | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

Leading by five with a little more than three minutes left in the game, Janning had a chance to put a dagger in the Crimson. He drove through a wide-open lane and rose up to slam it through, but his dunk attempt clanged...

Author: By Walter E. Howell, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Frosh Bounce Back in Defeat | 12/10/2008 | See Source »

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