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...genre with which we are all probably too familiar. Merely because my family’s story is familiar, however, does not make it any less meaningful, or, more importantly, any less true. Why do I bring this up? Is this just another example of that classic competition among Harvard students to see whose path to this school was the most difficult and unlikely? The ever present “race to the bottom” to see whose family was most hard-pressed and disadvantaged? While some will no doubt think it is self-satisfied back-patting, I think...

Author: By Mark A. Adomanis, | Title: Economic Diversity? | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), who refuses to leave him alone and, in an Unexpected Twist, teaches him to see the world in a new and clearer way.Drew and Claire’s burgeoning love is handled rather clumsily by Crowe, which is surprising considering he is the auteur behind classic romances like “Say Anything” and “Jerry Maguire.” Although Crowe at times mocks cheesy “chick flicks,” he too often succumbs to the genre, reverting to its poor, contrived conventions. (Honestly, does every girl talk...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elizabethtown | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...cultivating my brother’s gray matter without sacrificing one ounce of his innocence. Well, maybe one ounce, but certainly not two. For starters, it stimulates him in ways his favorite sitcoms don’t. While the Kool-Aid Man’s explosive cameo and other classic surprises prove highly accessible, many of the quips from the cast force him to do some serious mental gymnastics. In an attempt to digest this tougher humor, he asks lots of questions about SAT vocabulary and allusions to the likes of 1950s X-ray glasses constructed out of cardboard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: How to Get to Spooner Street? | 10/12/2005 | See Source »

...right, return much more. For that, undergraduates will have a few administrators’ sketchiness to thank.TO THE KONG!Rejected by the Advocate, the group moved to Eliot House. In focus groups, the architects explained, students and alumni say they want the new Loker pub to display a classic Harvard aesthetic, with taxidermied animals mounted on dark wood walls. The Eliot House common room had a big-screen high-definition television, a bar, a large neon beer sign, and several girls dressed in ’80’s mod.A few awkward moments later, the older architect was talking...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Is Work? | 10/12/2005 | See Source »

...point to their involvement. Even Ali Imron, now serving a life sentence in a Jakarta jail for his part in the first Bali attacks, shares the view that Azahari has struck again. The use of TNT sticks and nine-volt batteries, Imron told a local paper last week, was classic Azahari...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: On Terror's Trail | 10/10/2005 | See Source »

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