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While athletes tallied up their Olympic medals in Torino, an hour's journey east in Milan another kind of Olympics played out last week: the style games. And, just like Olympians, Italian fashion designers divide into opposing teams - but instead of medals, they compete for the attention and the dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Going for Gold | 2/25/2006 | See Source »

With the recent release of their cheekily-monikered "Elf-Titled" album, the Advantage have brought legitimacy to a style of music dubbed "Nintendocore," becoming the first group in this genre to take covers of classic 8-bit theme songs past the LAN-party circuit. Featuring drummer Spencer Seim from post...

Author: By Will B. Payne, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nintendo Rock: Nostalgia or Sound of the Future | 2/14/2006 | See Source »

2. New York mainstream mainstay Cam’ron takes things to a whole new level of absurdity, sampling Cyndi Lauper’s “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” (the whole backing synth line, not just the vocal) for his 2004 single ?...

Author: By Vinita M. Alexander, Ben B. Chung, Daniel J. Hemel, Marianne F. Kaletzky, Kristina M. Moore, Will B. Payne, Abe J. Riesman, and Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Executive Decisions | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

One poem begins with someone discussing how to make cocaine in a bathtub and ends with Shakespeare. In “The Life of a Hunter,” her first poetry collection, M. Michelle Robinson ’01 juxtaposes detective novel slang and modern art, literary references and...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: "The Life of a Hunter" | 10/27/2005 | See Source »

Though the specific aesthetics of the pub have not been solidified, planners have considered ideas ranging from student-drawn murals to kitschy photographs to Ivy League banners.

Author: By Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The New Harvard Pub: Say What? | 10/7/2005 | See Source »

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