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The lack of competitiveness makes for a routinely boring product. During the final, the pro-Canadian crowd mostly sat silent, stultified by the stagnant play. Lacking speed, Sweden followed a strategy that amounted to stacking the neutral zone at mid-ice with all five skaters in hopes of gumming up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alone at the Top | 2/21/2006 | See Source »

Remember five years ago and that heady rush of distortion of myriad garage bands with monosyllabic names—each the “Next Big Thing” according to NME—flooding the music scene? Remember how the Libertines, fronted by Pete Doherty, set themselves apart from...

Author: By Jake G. Cohen, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Down in Albion | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

Even Ben-Shahar’s biggest fans agree that the workload for the class is nowhere near as intensive as it is in most Harvard courses. M. Alice Johnson ’06, for example, “liked that Professor Ben-Shahar admitted we wouldn’t...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Science of Smiling | 2/15/2006 | See Source »

The theme for the games is "Passion Lives Here," so signs and logos for the game are dominated by red. The opening ceremony - held at 8 p.m. Torino time, and therefore six hours before it was shown on NBC on the East Coast ? used 122 makeup artists, 70 flame-thrower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: View from the Stands | 2/10/2006 | See Source »

One does not read romance novels expecting great literature, and fittingly, most of the characters in this book are simplistic and one-dimensional. Steven Hudson is rich, handsome, cultured, nice, and boring. Jessie Jones is beautiful, well-dressed, successful, and confident. They are the obvious “good guys...

Author: By Yan Zhao, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Capitalist Tackles Romance | 2/9/2006 | See Source »

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