Word: crassness
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...liberal arts education should be untainted by the specter of naked greed. Ostensibly, the undergraduate experience is an opportunity to contemplate life's higher questions and learn to appreciate its more refined pleasures. Admittedly, the notion that college is a time for self-edification, shielded from the more crass concerns of the rat race, has been under assault for years. From the increasingly heated resume-padding battles of the extracurricular sphere, to the proliferation of pre-professional courses, the purely liberal education has long been on the wane--especially here at Harvard. However, not until the TECH, has the rejection...
...Luke and Laura, and, most of all, Chuck and Di for that. But it used to be that at least one partner needed to be famous. Fox upset that rule--and just may have found its answer to the ABC phenom Who Wants to Be a Millionaire--with the crass namesake and surprise smash Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire? In the process, it underscored the new reality of TV's New Reality: oddball, cheap nonfiction programs, from game shows to voyeurism stunts, are elbowing aside sitcoms and dramas. And they may get even weirder...
...diversity--several of the analysts are Indian or East Asian or Middle Eastern (although I don't notice any black analysts). So why the gender imbalance? Analysts speculate that most women are turned off by the aggressive, combative nature of investment banking. "The environment can be a little crass, but it's fun," one analyst tells me. "There's a certain type of woman who can work here, and a certain type who can't." Shemmer echoes that sentiment: "In general I-banking is more male-oriented. There's a lot of testosterone, it's considered the old Wall Street...
...World Is Not Enough seems to do its best to put a techno beat under the whole picture. The whole thing is ultimately too souped up for its own good; perhaps a strange complaint for a Bond film, but there's a fine line between class and crass. It almost seems as though James Bond himself is set at odds with his style of movie-making. 007 is a man of simple pleasures and simple motivations; get the girl, save the world. Sure, he uses expensive gadgets and blows up expensive things, but these are just tools of his imperturbable...
...site's debut last week at www.ronsangels.com outraged fertility experts and ethicists, who accused Harris of everything from running a soft-core eBay to the Hitlerian crime of eugenics. Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, who wrote the 1992 federal law regulating fertility clinics, called the operation "crass commercialism." Some suggested that Harris might be more interested in selling ads on a hot website than in selling eggs--or that the whole thing might even be a hoax...