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This year, the College introduced neighborhood blocking. Blocking groups were able to link with other groups to ensure that the two would be in nearby houses. The innovation is a clever way to prevent the Quad-River split between friends in different blocking groups that so many first-years fear, and it addresses the needs of friends who are close, but not quite close enough to enter the House lottery together. Thanks to linking, blocking this year has been a bit easier...
...responsible for weighing competing claims: Google’s right to protect its data against the government’s need for information to enforce (and, in this situation, evaluate) its laws. In this case Ware made the wrong decision. The government’s desire to prevent clever youngsters from subverting anti-pornography software does not justify an exploration of Google’s data, it represents a very real threat to the privacy of Google’s users...
Editors The Back Room (Fader Label) 3 of 5 Stars On the heels of their sold-out US concert tour, Editors (no article, oh-so-clever) have finally released their first CD, “The Back Room,” in the States, after several months of growing popularity in the United Kingdom. Joy Division comparisons are already tiresome—it seems that every melancholy vocalist in a post-punk band is compared to the late Ian Curtis—but inevitable with Editors, whose debut offers an uneven retread of the sound, style and lyrics of their...
...link a Republican could send to friends who were Democrats, and they might not change their minds, but they wouldn't be offended. "And that's exactly where we try to be," says Crawford. "We want these things to be viral, and if they're argumentative instead of clever, they just...
...though he may love his hair metal, doesn’t really “understand” it.For Teskey, this is the study of pop culture at its worst. “I don’t think that being amused at your amusement strikes me as profoundly clever,” he says. “At least, it’s not as clever as actually en-joying something like kung-fu movies.”Menand agrees that this wouldn’t be the right way to go about academic work, but he says that...