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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Abercrombie Faces a Muslim-Headscarf Lawsuit | 9/23/2009 | See Source »

...first victim of the sorority girls’ stupidity. “The Hills” revealed Patridge as an aspiring actress; arguably her one-line role in “Sorority Row” is not a great step toward achieving that goal. In another all-too-brief appearance, Carrie Fisher manages to imbue her role as Theta Pi housemother with Princess Leia-like badassery. Most disappointing is Rumer Willis (daughter of Bruce and Demi), who essentially reprises her role as the nerdy, slightly excluded co-ed she played in “The House Bunny?...

Author: By Brianne Corcoran, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sorority Row | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...Visiter.” “This Is A Business” eschews the snail-pace that many of the other songs fall into. Also to its credit, its arc is the most emergent of the set. But its experimental tuning and discordant guitar work nearly negates a brief, but shining, moment of Beatlesque pop. Unfortunately the middle of the song goes off into a slow, jarring tangent, and the song’s momentum is stymied by unnecessary noodlings. Because Long often gives in to experimental impulses, the songs on “Time to Die?...

Author: By Candace I. Munroe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Dodos | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...only really possible to differentiate the other executives at ADM by their horrible ties. Most tragically, the comedic gifts of Toby Hale—known best for his role as Buster Bluth in “Arrested Development”—are squandered during his brief appearance as Whitacre’s lawyer.Near the end of the movie, as Whitacre’s plans are beginning to unravel, he notices a swarm of ants feasting on discarded food crumbs. “That’s a big break right there,” he thinks to himself...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Informant! | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...solemn assessment by that the "graphic and shocking, albeit brief, exposure of Janet Jackson's bare right breast to a nationwide audience composed of millions of children and adults" warrants - lo, these 5½ years after that insanely overhyped distraction from the Iraq war - further investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

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