Word: decentered
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...would you go for a decent haircut? Documentary filmmaker Liz Mermin, director of “The Beauty Academy of Kabul” (see review, right) traveled all the way to Afghanistan to film the efforts of Beauty Without Borders, a group of American beauticians who have committed themselves to teaching the newly liberated women of Kabul to clip, snip, and crimp themselves to picture-perfection. Mermin spoke with The Crimson in a phone interview last week and will appear for a question and answer session at the opening of “The Beauty Academy of Kabul?...
...haunting acoustic guitar provides the perfect melodic background for her gonzo tale. “Borneo,” the following track, is a jaunty ode to gambling addiction. Eleanor opines that she’s become “bored of her old life and decent odds” before stealing her roommates debit card, moving to Jakarta, and losing the deed to her boyfriend’s mother’s mansion in a high-stakes card game. The details of this larceny are recounted against the carefree jangle of Matthew’s showtune worthy keyboards...
WHRB’s has found its golden ticket to financial security in the form of classical broadcasting. And it’s no big surprise that a decent number of Harvard undergraduates with a knowledge and enthusiasm for classical music make a staff of top-notch classical...
...Contempt ricochets through quarters of the commentariat that have long given Bush the benefit of the doubt. Through the 2004 campaign, when Don Imus was a genial Kerry supporter, he often made the point that he thought Bush was a decent guy; Imus was no firebreathing Franken. But Wednesday morning Imus kept playing a clip from Bush's speech in Iowa in which he insisted that America's golden fields of corn would rescue us from the environmental and strategic misery of dependence on Middle Eastern oil. The President sounded, Imus said, "trailer-park stupid...
...would also give other residents more incentive to participate in House life. Some might fear that House elections will become a popularity contest. But this is a good thing. The house benefits far more from having sociable (read: popular) people living in party suites than it does from having decent, quiet people in them. The House’s icons are the loci upon whom a vibrant House life can be built. And they tend to cluster in rooming groups that are ideal for these suites. If students think about their own Houses, they can identify a group of roommates...