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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Colbert Christmas Stephen Colbert spikes the Xmas punch with Willie Nelson as a weed-toting Wise Man, Jon Stewart ambivalently praising Hanukkah and John Legend crooning a hilariously filthy ode to nutmeg. This is to earnest holiday specials what truthiness is to truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Short List | 11/26/2008 | See Source »

Still, the lack of an academic department devoted to new media has not stopped some students from pursuing multimedia studies. Last year, Charlie I. Miller ’08 devised a VES senior thesis that retold the Faust legend as what he calls “a multimedia production that fully integrated video and live performance.” The project, entitled “Username: Faust,” heavily utilized YouTube and other Internet components to convey a virtual reality world that replaced the spiritual realm of the original Faust myth. Miller praises his adviser, VES Professor Alfred...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard in the Time of New Media | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...reader can identify. While he may be a narcissist, a pompous jerk, and a pathological liar, he is not defined by those qualities alone. Motivated by commercial opportunism, Zollner is initially attracted to Kaminski only to advance his own interests. But after spending time with the man behind the legend, he realizes that there is just too much to capture, that life is too rich to be commercialized. He sees that there is more to life than merely enterprise and decides to throw away the notepad on which he has scribbled copious notes, but to keep intact the camera memory...

Author: By Eunice Y. Kim, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Kaminski' Got Nothing | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...about 60 percent of the kids who started with us at go on to boarding schools or private schools," says Anderson. Enter Korn's father, Rick, a former player who helped coach his own son to the Division-I level; Bob Turco, a Harlem-born lacrosse coaching legend who played his way to Washington and Lee University in the '70s; and Ross Turco, Bob's son and former high school All-America and D-I player who now coaches at Peddie, an elite boarding school in Hightstown, New Jersey. The well-connected trio, along with the school's director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lacrosse 110th Street | 11/16/2008 | See Source »

...smooth, seductive rap, unfolding in much the same way in book after book. The Daughters of Joy is no exception. Unlike Chopra's previous novel Soulmate, which dwelt at length on specifically Eastern ideas like karma and reincarnation, Daughters focuses on a figure long popular in Western myth and legend, and among contemporary New Agers as well: the Wise Woman. Its slim plot revolves around Jess Conover, a young reporter at a Boston newspaper. Confused, adrift and emotionally anemic, Jess stumbles, seemingly by chance, on a classified ad in a newspaper: "Love has found you. Tell no one. Just come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Age Supersage | 11/14/2008 | See Source »

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