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...Spin City: The Complete First Season Deceiving the media was never more delightful than in this 1996 sitcom set in New York's city hall. As Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty, tap-dancing for the press while managing a gaffe-machine mayor (Barry Bostwick), Michael J. Fox is a breath of fresh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...rash decisions such as selecting Sarah Palin and suspending his campaign. While his supporters call him a maverick, I call him reckless. And as the past eight years have shown, recklessness is not what we need in a President. We need someone with intelligence, composure, discipline and restraint. Robert J. Inlow, CHARLOTTESVILLE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Two Candidates, Two Styles | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

...profitable rebellion—but embraces them so wholly that the contradiction becomes a part of the work. “Microcastle” is the testament of a band that has accepted its function and its place, and, in so doing, transcends both.—Reviewer Ryan J. Meehan can be reached at rmeehan@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Ryan J. Meehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Deerhunter | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Imagine walking into the engineering labs at 60 Oxford St. and having a fly buzz around your head. After swatting it away, instead of a splat on the wall, you discover a tiny mechanical creation of Robert J. Wood, an assistant professor of electrical engineering. Two weeks ago, Wood was awarded a grant from the Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Research Program for work on the aero-elasticity of flapping wings of micro aero vehicles (MAVs). The Air Force program, which provides around $100,000 each year for a three-year period, hopes...

Author: By Alissa M D'gama, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Air Force Funds SEAS Robotic Research | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

...relatively small. Banaji also noted that because the data was collected online, it inherently “underestimates the poor, those who are not computer literate, and perhaps even conservatives.” Nonetheless, the research presents fascinating questions for the academic world. Harvard Psychology Professor Ellen J. Langer called the work “fabulously important.” She added, “I think that our implicit biases can affect virtually all that we do. The importance of the work is pervasive...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Test Says Voters Are Decided | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

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