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Freshmen rolled up their sleeves for an extra course after dinner yesterday, but it was not a piece of cake. University Health Services began offering free flu shots in Annenberg, administering around 400 vaccination shots last night...

Author: By Angela A. Sun, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Flu Shots: Now at a Dining Hall Near You | 11/9/2006 | See Source »

It’s time lucky people joined candy, cake, and Christmas on the list of things that the young tend to prefer. According to psychologists at Harvard and Stanford, children between the ages of five and seven demonstrate a predilection for people who have seen their lives graced with good fortune as compared to those who have suffered from poor luck. Furthermore, this tendency is not limited to individuals, but rather, is applied to larger groups encompassing those individuals. This research may shed light on the origins of social prejudices. “Children prefer the lucky...

Author: By Christian B. Flow, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Feeling Lucky? Kids Will Like You | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...title, but that seems like an ad hoc explanation more artistically palatable than the truth: it looks cool. It opens with shots of hair-pulling and punches, only to turn into a fight abated. Brawlers fly out of swimming pools, piñatas are thrown into trees, and the cake smeared all over poor Lovefoxxx’s face is put back on the serving plate. Wounds are healed and hairdos recoiffed through liberal usage of stop-motion footage. Everyone gets de-uglified. Even with all of the mangled faces, there’s still something inherently cute, hip, irreverent...

Author: By Alexandra M. Gutierrez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: CSS | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...seizure inducing, with dizzyingly kaleidoscopic scenes. There are also peculiar visuals, such as a svelte and feline sylph painted in pink and purple stripes, looking very much like a human Cheshire Cat. As Fergie and her friends lather up with frosting for soap in a kiddie-pool of cake, it became clear that any social commentary on the problems of childhood sexuality would have to wait. At the same time, the video throws you back to the past, to a time when you thought Princess Peach was cute, and the fish in Fantasia were really sexy. But just as everything...

Author: By Alexander B. Fabry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Fergie | 11/8/2006 | See Source »

...effort marred by poor planning and misjudgments of the local scene, this move just about took the cake. Someone in the U.S. military thought it was a good idea to send Sergeant Santos Cardona, a dog handler convicted of abusing detainees at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, back to serve again in Iraq. What's more, his unit's job was to help train Iraqi police, a curious assignment for a military policeman caught in photographs distributed worldwide doing just the sort of thing peace officers should never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whose Idea Was This? | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

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