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While hardcore Borat fans will inevitably be disappointed by the recycling job, the greatest surprise in “Borat” comes from Cohen’s new emphasis on crude slapstick humor. That’s not to say that the “Jackass”-style...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Movie Review: Borat | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

Pharrell is an “artist”, with the emphasis on the self-righteous quotation marks. Occasionally capable of great things, he is equally good at putting together sub-par tracks and successfully passing them off as stylish hit singles. With “Wamp Wamp (What It...

Author: By J. samuel Abbott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Popscreen: The Clipse feat. Slim Thug | 11/2/2006 | See Source »

On the other end of the spectrum, you have the potential problems caused by vanity sizing, problems given far less attention in the Newsweek article. Vanity sizing skews away from encouraging women to be too small, and instead might allow them to become complacent in weight ranges that are too...

Author: By Ashton R. Lattimore | Title: Tiny is the New Black | 11/1/2006 | See Source »

Although other required fields have worldly applications as significant components of their courses, their philosophies emphasize the importance of understanding the fundamental principles of those fields. For example, the science and technology requirement is standard in its expectation that “courses in this category should teach key scientific...

Author: By Adam A Solomon and Christopher J Sullivan | Title: Religion for Religion’s Sake | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

But “literally” has come to mean just the opposite; it suggests exaggeration, intensity, and insistence. Perhaps this formerly literary term is thus doomed to the ranks of “seriously” or “really,” words that once signified...

Author: By Victoria Ilyinsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: This Word is Killing Me, Literally | 10/30/2006 | See Source »

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