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...University’s historic center. The aftermath of the concert found many of us enjoying the sight of long lost freshman year roommates and Core course section friends from semesters past. And indeed that was the major success of Yardfest, 2006: it brought the campus together. While many bemoan the dearth of House pride here in Cambridge, Harvard has a healthy capacity for class pride, and even College pride, which ought to be tapped into more often. Not being assigned an upperclass House as a first year may dilute the excitement of being a Dunster resident, but it gives...
This statement of course deserves both explanation and qualification—it serves little purpose to abstractly bemoan the postmodern condition and the demise of great literature as a culturally significant force...
...Perhaps the parallel to pornography is instructive. The ability to download and view dirty pictures in the privacy of your own home prompted the triple-X expansion of triple-X businesses. Cultural conservatives regularly bemoan the Internet's ability to "normalize" such previously hidden behaviors as polyamory - you may be the only bisexual group-love aficianado in Omaha, but thanks to AOL, you can find more of them in Kansas City...
...accessories for elaborate makeover parties for girls as young as 4 at a relatively reasonable $21 a head. They can strut down a catwalk, don mock Madonna headset microphones and pester their parents to buy Role Model perfume or a LOCAL CELEBRITY T shirt. It would be easy to bemoan the trend as the end of childhood or the corruption of innocence. But the hunger for recognition doesn't end with the acquisition of a driver's license. As popular culture divides into ever more finely split niches, with Yahoo Groups and blogs touting the cream of whatever subculture...
...particular, but also much of the rest of the album, it’s surprising to recall that the Black Eyed Peas used to be a serious group. Somewhere along the line, they got Fergie, got retarded, and got paid. It’s tempting to bemoan this slide into silliness, but when the results are so entertaining, it’s more fun to think less and dance more...