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...essays by Emerson, Ellison, and Jane Adams. Harvard thus seems to be the ivy-clad place where students are not simply educated, but are taught to view the ethical implications and obligations of their education. You know, the weighty stuff.Upon arriving, freshmen are treated to a brief lecture and hour-long discussion on the essays, which are then quickly tossed aside in favor of more alluring texts like CUE guides, course catalogs, and ever-handy copies of “Writing with Sources.”Today, Harvard makes one last-ditch attempt to force students to think critically about...
...During our hour-long laptop interview, Goldberg told FM that although he made fun of Viswanathan “more than anyone,” it was always in the name of friendly sarcasm. “The girl has a sense of humor,” he said...
...will turn into a viable business with real profits. In traditional broadcasting, networks make money by charging advertisers for commercial space--an effective and time-tested financial model. With the $1.99 downloads, nets stand to make about $1.39--compared with 44 per household typically earned from ads on an hour-long drama. But new-media ventures are still in their nascent stages. NBC estimates it will make $10 million from iTunes downloads in 2006--an amount equal to ad sales from one Thursday prime-time lineup...
...taffy and confused by questionably relevant laser hieroglyphs, FM fears it has made a mistake. The planetarium seats start to sway—from audience motion, not psychotropic pre-gaming. After 45 minutes, the novelty has worn off, and FM suspects it has paid four dollars to see an hour-long screensaver in surround sound. FM recommends the show for aficionados and the baked. If early-’70s concept-rock isn’t up your alley, the planetarium also hosts Laser U2 on Thursdays, Laser Beatles on Sundays, and Laser Led Zeppelin (“Climb...
...their cock-rockin’ swagger, couldn’t muster more than a slumber party shovefest when they quarreled.More recently, the political hardcore group Born Against’s indignation over NYC brocore band Sick of It All’s label-enforced censorship led to an hour-long radio debate. In a polarization that haunts hardcore to this day, SOIA came across as bonehead sell-outs, and Born Against as self-righteous aesthetes.But feuds rarely reach such lofty abstractions, centering more often on clothing styles and record sales. Most hilariously, the dude from Fall Out Boy ridiculed...