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...email, “[Gould] is probably the best known evolutionary biologist of his generation. His popularity is due to his ability to choose what seem like small features of the biological world…and use these examples as a launching pad to explain in a creative and clever way key features of evolutionary biology.” According to Wrangham, “no one is better at weaving history, science and the arts into a compelling narrative...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A History of Life | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

...gets away with it, as when Greg falls under the sway of an Al Sharpton-like puppet-rights agitator. ("This is going to end with puppets rioting in the streets," Levy frets. "This is the Fozzie Bear verdict all over again.") But Wednesday, like its title, isn't clever enough to earn its self-satisfied tone. (We're spoofing TV! On TV!) Starring a wooden Ivan Sergei as an exec at the struggling IBS network, it is a rehash of Hollywood Babylon cliches. One "provocative" plot--should IBS air an execution for ratings?--is as old as TV itself. Producer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Greg The Bunny | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

It’s become an annual rite of spring that a Harvard senior will blow away everyone away to start the season. Last year it was javelin superstar Chris Clever ’01. This time it was co-captain Kobie Fuller...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fuller Leads M. Track to First-Place Finish at Bayou Classic | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...Patton continued the Harvard tradition of strong performances in the javelin. As a freshman, he can’t be expected to put up Clever-like numbers, which would be in the 70-meter range, but he still placed highly—second at both TSU and Rice with 54-meter throws...

Author: By David R. De remer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fuller Leads M. Track to First-Place Finish at Bayou Classic | 4/1/2002 | See Source »

...Hands Clean", the album's first single, is the only song offering anything remotely interesting. Written as a hypothetical dialogue between her and a former lover she's surprisingly clever and subtle in her biting criticism of their failed relationship. Still, however cute the casing, the song is really just a new take on "You Oughta Know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REVIEW: 'Under Rug Swept' by Alanis Morissette | 3/26/2002 | See Source »

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