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...mystery of the woman on page eight plays out amidst murders and pregnancies that, truth be told, do not actually exist. As Randi narrates in an aside midway through the novel, “By the way, I don’t think Katarina was even trying to get close to the truth, if once again, just for a moment, I consider the truth to be the actual circumstances.” The “truth” and “actual circumstances” only coincide for mere moments: it is the rest of the time that...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dane Christensen Fuses Poetry, Prose in Dream-Like ‘Azorno’ | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...dollars. So if you can know that you’re going to get half a million dollars with one FBS game, then you can make the numbers work.”So with its sister conference seemingly headed down a path towards athletic scholarships, is the Ivy League close behind?“It will never happen in our league, and it shouldn’t,” Murphy says. “It’s not appropriate, because every kid here has something a little bit special about them. I think while in a certain world...

Author: By Dixon McPhillips, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: FOOTBALL '09: Patriot Games: Scholarships Pose Threat to the Ivy Way | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...impressive flow. Cudi’s voice is beautiful and his words meaningful; he can spit just as well as he sings. For a new artist attempting an ambitious mixture of styles, Kid Cudi’s album is an impressive success.Immediately noticeable is Cudi’s close attention to detail, not only sonically but also in the album’s presentation. Calling his liner notes a “scene listing” rather than a track list, he groups songs into five acts...

Author: By Sarah E. Rich, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Kid Cudi | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

...meeting with his FBI handler, we hear him contemplate a potential friendship with the agent: “I could see us fishing, or whatever.”With a keen attention to detail, Soderbergh sets a fittingly rich background for Whitacre’s frenetic imagination. His frequent close ups-of black and green screen computers and clunky recording devices serve as fond reminders of early 90s technology. Even Whitacre’s paranoid fantasies are very much a product of his decade; at one point he compares his own situation to that of Tom Cruise...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Informant! | 9/18/2009 | See Source »

NATO In Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen welcomed the U.S. decision, a sentiment echoed in a statement released by Britain's Foreign Office, which said the announcement "confirms the close cooperation between the U.S. and NATO allies on developing antimissile systems." Rasmussen also said missile defense would continue in an altered form. "It is my clear impression that the American plan on missile defense will involve NATO ... to a higher degree in the future," the AP reported him as saying. "This is a positive step in the direction of an inclusive and transparent process, which I also think...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mixed Reactions in Europe to the U.S. Missile Defense U-Turn | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

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