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However, we adjust the influence of the social environment on the basis of how we perceive the people around us. So if an obese person is helping himself to a large portion, I'll hold back a bit because, well, I see the ultimate results of his eating habits and don't want the stigma associated with being overweight. But if the thin person eats a lot, why shouldn't I follow suit? If she can gorge herself and still keep trim...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Want to Lose Weight? Avoid Skinny Overeaters | 9/28/2009 | See Source »

...command, and I prefer to believe it is yours, my friend, I go on living,” she closes one letter.The third person narrative structure of the book is also one of its strengths. Being bound by the stupidity of Chase, the invested reader will chomp at the bit for more and more information, but Lethem holds fast to his kernels of truth until their revelation is all the more satisfying. Every detail of the book gains retrospective significance as the puzzle pieces slowly sort themselves into place, making it almost necessary to read the book at least twice...

Author: By Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lethem's Novel proves 'Chronic' | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...herald a more imaginative turn. This is followed by several clever and visually striking set pieces involving the secondary characters, but unfortunately Klapisch is unable to maintain his momentum. The film lurches into a forced ending in which many of the loose ends are tied up just a bit too cleanly, and Pierre helpfully offers the moral of the story in a voiceover for those who haven’t figured it out by that point. Klapisch seems to be directing on autopilot, producing a mildly engaging trifle until he can return to the characters from...

Author: By Abigail B. Lind, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Paris | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...that positivity with the conviction that Pearl Jam does, most evidently on “The Fixer,” the album’s lead single and the song Bono wishes he could write. “When something’s broke, / I want to put a bit of fixin’ on it,” Vedder sings. The lyrics are reminiscent of Coldplay’s 2005 hit “Fix You,” except that where Chris Martin simpered, Vedder sings with irresistible gusto and belief. “The Fixer?...

Author: By Keshava D. Guha, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Pearl Jam | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

...tell us a bit more specifically about what Iran can do. Well to start with, we believe from our perspective that the policies pursued in Afghanistan by the United States have been wrong. Often collected through a series of misinformations about the culture, the way of life, and the belief system of the people of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's problems do not have a military solution, but rather it needs a humanitarian solution and we know ways around to do that because we live in one area and we have the cultural and historical ties. We know each other, understand each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIME's Interview with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | 9/25/2009 | See Source »

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