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...shaped Italian cake in its bright red box will add to your holiday spirit. It's tasteful, ornamental and easy, and the box is pretty enough to give without wrapping paper. Pannetone is a perfect alternative to the usual holiday cakes and cookies--a fruitcake that won't seem clich. Locals who savor this Square institution have made it a top holiday seller for years...

Author: By Susan J. Marshall and Mildred M. Yuan, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: 'Tis the Season...To Shop | 12/8/2000 | See Source »

...Backstreet-penned songs on the new album are not without flaws; they lack the sparkle of Max Martin originals and all too often resort to clich-driven lyrics easily mistakable for greeting-card poetry. Even with these flaws, however, the Boys' songwriting efforts reveal an earnest and largely successful attempt by the group to become creatively involved in their music. Particularly worthy is Kevin Richardson's "It's True" and Howie Dorough's "How Did I Fall in Love With You"; two songs whose simple background chords and sincere lyrics invoke sentimentality for even the staunchest skeptics of pop music...

Author: By Yan Fang, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Backstreet's Back | 12/1/2000 | See Source »

...Clich: The integrity of the press depends on its keeping a clear line between editorial and factual content. Opinions, like this one, must be carefully labeled and set aside so that the reader may rest assured the rest is fact. Often, it is precisely the guise of unbiased reporting which skews the truth in problematic ways. Currently, though, the average American--watching 30 minutes of evening news each day--will have, as regards the candidates, little truth to skew...

Author: By Maryanthe E. Malliaris, | Title: Character in the News | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...waning hours of a presidential campaign in which each side has been feverishly trading clichs, the Harvard football team decided on Saturday to switch an old clich...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Defense Wins Championships | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

...dramatic progress made on defense has, as the clich indicates, made Harvard a serious championship contender...

Author: By Daniel E. Fernandez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tenacious D: Defense Wins Championships | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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