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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Think about it, guys. And next time you’re tempted to bemoan the state of Ivy League ladies’ appearances, take a good hard look not only in the mirror, but at the stereotypes involved...

Author: By Bonnie J. Kavoussi | Title: Around the Ivies | 3/12/2009 | See Source »

...KINDLE launched; newspapers bemoan lack of fish-wrapping functionality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop Chart | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...online outlets that can make anything news at any time, the media formerly known as mainstream are dealing with news that can go through several rounds of attack and counter-attack between the morning paper and the evening news. The 24-hour news cycle that media critics used to bemoan seems as quaint and leisurely as a taffy pull. We're now living in a 24-minute news cycle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign '08: The Media's 24-Minute News Cycle | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...without the gospel-inspired piano chords and righteousness of “Time Is Now.”MURS also makes the case for love songs and chivalry. At the beginning of “Love and Appreciate II,” he and producer 9th Wonder bemoan rappers stereotyping women as shrews and hos as well as the lack of rap love songs. To keep a lady, MURS advocates, “Buy some flowers, open up some doors / She needs tampons, homie, go to the store.”But MURS spends too much time proving his worthiness...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: MURS | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...basic skills, hoping to accelerate them to the pace of the rest of the class. Ideally, schools wouldn’t need to use test scores or report cards to measure teacher performance, and monetary rewards would not be necessary. But with the educational system in crisis, critics who bemoan the shortcomings of standardized testing simply cannot afford to ignore that such tests do provide benchmarks for basic proficiency, from which schools can evaluate their own performance. Merit pay systems may leave much to be desired, but they provide a notable avenue to address the failures of our current system...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Extra Credit | 9/24/2008 | See Source »

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