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...24—There’s a New Colby now too; people are dropping like flies. I’m starting to wonder if “Ivory Tower” is secretly initiating an intensive boot camp. I’m picturing a drill sergeant screaming in Old Colby’s face:“You did not accurately portray sexual confusion in that last scene! You disgust me, maggot! What is this jelly donut doing in your foot locker...

Author: By Amos Barshad, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ivory Tower Saga Retold | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...like boot camp really,” he says of the ordeal. “It was scary at the time, but experiences like those really made me want to do it more in the end. It really inspired me and showed me the level of dedication this sort of work takes. You can never half...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson’s Alternative Honorees for ’05 | 5/5/2005 | See Source »

...prospects of this rather bleak outcome? About as good as Summers’ chances of getting an American-Indian female professor’s boot in the butt. Yep. That good...

Author: By Timothy J. Mcginn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: McGINN 'N' JUICE: I-AA Football Faces Change | 4/29/2005 | See Source »

Devoted Springsteen fans will sense immediately where Devils & Dust is headed, largely because the Boss has left his boot prints on this territory before, most famously on 1982's Nebraska and 1995's The Ghost of Tom Joad. Those albums chronicled closed lives in open spaces with the kind of ascetic social realism you might find in a particularly earnest newspaper series, but they also had Springsteen's venerable empathy to warm them up and dramatize them. Fact and feeling mingle again on Devils, but not always in the proper proportion. The boxer on The Hitter who passes his estranged...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The New Ghost of Tom Joad | 4/24/2005 | See Source »

...into one of a dozen languages, widgets that converts currency, weights and measures, and a widget that searches the entire Oxford American dictionary and Thesaurus (which also ships with Tiger). Widgets do all the workaday stuff of the web-local weather, flight times, Yellow Pages-without you having to boot up a browser or remember a web address. Dashboard starts with 14 widgets; the idea is that amateur programmers will create hundreds more once Tiger gets up and running. (Windows users can begin to get the widget experience by downloading Konfabulator...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tiger's Tale | 4/21/2005 | See Source »

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