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...both groups have scored large performances this coming weekend—Tha League is opening for Busta Rhymes and Chester French will appear at Springfest. While both groups remain enthusiastic about a post-college future in an uncertain music industry, for now they are content balancing the rigors of life as Harvard undergraduates with aspirations of mainstream musical success. “In a few years, it will be a huge privilege that FM got to see us in our formative stages,” Wallach jokes...
...self-justifying defenses of Hollywood hacks, and the gassy theorizing of academics. However, especially since her third book (Going Steady) appeared in 1970, she has become an established New Yorker commodity, and increasingly self-indulgent: her responses to films are at times based solely on their generalized erotic content. She has made claims that "male actors need a little bit of fascism to make them attractive." She has been seduced by the camera wizardry of Bob Fosse and Bertolucci, and turned off by the supposed machismo of Straw Dogs. She has also gone bananas over movies just because they have...
...psychological research that must necessarily lie behind the practice of psychiatry is going on in some form in almost all the colleges of the country. Use of intelligence tests calculated to get at a student's mental content has spread with astonishing rapidity. Originated by the famous Frenchman. Binet, they were brought to this country by Dr. H. H. Goddard. Until the war, knowledge of them was chiefly confined to experimental psychologists. Then the famous Army Alpha tests were devised, and intelligence testing took on the appearance of a popular sport...
...lifelong dream will never come true under Harvard’s current schedule. There will be no funneling beer with Oklahoma State University fraternity brothers. If I’m so lucky to end up in such a beautiful spring break location again, I’ll have to content myself with talking to a high school girl about Hillary Duff and her break-up with Aaron Carter. The spa full of Arizona State University girls will instead be full of Moms asking me questions about what SAT prep course I took to get into Harvard...
JAPAN Mori MORI BUILDING/MORI TRUST Minoru and Akira Mori split up and built successful real estate companies on their own. One brother now talks of building Utopia, while the other is content to just build 2003 Revenues: $2.25 billion...