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...Miller does his best to avoid sounding too academic (and has an ear for pulled-from-TMZ.com phrases like "insecure, praise-starved flattery-sluts"), his broad, rambling arguments read at times like a college professor's lecture notes. Worse still, his ideas don't seem particularly groundbreaking. In fact, some seem downright antiquated: Men buy Porsches to project power, women use eyeliner to look pretty, and everyone seeks attention without realizing they're going about it all wrong. But if Miller's ideas don't quite hit the mark, don't blame him. "Consumerism is hard to describe when...
...Then there is the financial system. Problems tied to bad loans persist. The latest victim came forward on Tuesday: small-business credit-card issuer Advanta said it would shut down all of its cardholders' accounts after billowing losses threatened its viability. And yet elsewhere the credit markets seemed downright rosy. The TED spread - a gauge of how willing banks are to lend to each other - hit its lowest point since the beginning of the credit crisis in the summer of 2007, and companies, including Microsoft and Wal-Mart sold a relatively sizeable $32.6 billion of debt to investors...
...juxtaposition of ubiquitous plastic toys and brutal violence may seem downright strange, but there's something eerily familiar about LEGOs that brings issues like waterboarding into sharp focus. Says Legofesto: "The incongruity between the immoral and horrific acts and events depicted and the smiley-faced childrens' toy creates a tension." Legofesto says she decided to recreate images of torture and violence out of LEGOs due to the reluctance of media organizations to publish enough actual, real-life images of what she views as criminal acts. The images range from the death of a protester at the recent G-20 meeting...
...blues format have lately become fallbacks for Dylan, but they were always convincing before. Here, he doesn’t revive a blues aesthetic so much as he regurgitates its tropes on the awkward “My Wife’s Home Town,” or the downright embarrassing “It’s All Good,” both of which could have been just as palatable as their predecessors if they weren’t so generally lazy. Thankfully, these are the album’s lowest lows, but what distinguishes them from...
...sick, and how to cough properly (“into the crook of your elbow”) from HUHS has been much appreciated by FlyBy, who had previously thought that sneezing into people’s faces and swapping saliva with those who had hacking coughs was healthy and downright sexy. So, in order to better inform the Harvard community on how to proceed in this time of pandemic confusion, FlyBy has figured out a simple and effective form of swine flu deterrence. We've got your back...