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...donations to student groups. Meanwhile, it applauds post factum bold steps taken by the University, such as the financial aid initiative or the curricular review.In other words, the UC is just a slothful bystander. It merely turns its head in the direction of the student-life parade, with a grin or a frown according to the occasion, but it never leads that parade. Instead, various interest groups, bloggers, a few tormented souls from The Crimson, and outsiders (parents, donors, Boston Globe reporters) are the intermediaries between students and University sages. They are doing, often inadequately and for their own ends...

Author: By Mihalis Moutselos, | Title: The Case for a Strong UC | 10/4/2006 | See Source »

MONA LISA SMILE A Dutch emotion- recognition program determined that her non-grin is just 83% happy. She's also 9% disgusted, 6% fearful and 2% angry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mona Lisa Secrets | 10/1/2006 | See Source »

...That's wishful thinking. Elizabeth has always struck me as a crabby soul. Her job is, essentially, to smile in public, yet she's never been good at it. The grin seems more a grimace, as if she grudges the effort it takes to move those facial muscles. If warmth and beauty are requisites of regality, she's flunked the test. Perhaps because of the coldness I sense in Elizabeth, I've often felt a sympathy for Charles, whom I'm guessing didn't get a lot of it at home. He works so hard at the game of ingratiation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Royal Family: Inside Edition | 9/29/2006 | See Source »

...laughter could be experienced together), Lue also likes to show off his tech savvy with animations that are pretty cool to the science nerds that populate the course. He even modifies the trailers of popular movies into short clips about BS 54—but watch out, that grin he wears during them means that you'll actually have to pay attention soon—a breakout question is coming. Though these breakouts actually mean something in terms of your final grade, there's a way to ace these: Step 1: Find the smartest kid you can during the first...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Molecular and Cellular Biology 54, "Cell Biology" | 9/14/2006 | See Source »

...though, he's staying in California to teach and wait for the muse to return. But his mind remains very focused on his homeland. "Whenever I get visitors from Kenya, they think I want to ask them large questions about politics and so on," he says with a grin. "They are always taken aback when I question them about simple things. I want to know about the new songs, new words, what are the roads like, what is the dust like? Everyday things." Because it's the simple things, the everyday things, that really bring a story to life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa's Wizard Of Words | 9/3/2006 | See Source »

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