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...making the young Alison, whose playground nickname is "butch," wear a barrette when she doesn't want to. He also runs the family business, a funeral home, which gives the book its snarky double-entendre title. Far from fun, thanks chiefly to the father's quashing of all affections lest the "bad" one be exposed, Bechdel compares her home life to an artist's colony rather than a family. "We ate together but were otherwise absorbed in our separate pursuits." One of these pursuits, to her father's credit, was a deep appreciation for literature, perhaps the only love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: No Need for Sensationalism | 6/1/2006 | See Source »

...free iPods.The CUE Guide continues to be an important resource for course selection, but in order for it to be useful as possible, the CUE survey needs to convey as much information as possible about all courses, not just those whose professors consent. And students need to participat, lest the entire survey be rendered useless. These changes will help the CUE to better serve its purpose, which, in the words of Gross in his recorded message to the College community, “is to let students know where the good courses is. Are.” And since...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Finding the Good Courses | 5/22/2006 | See Source »

...have become architects, if only? Same way with movie directors, with people who were good at writing in high school and so on. We need to believe that Frank Gehry (or Sydney Pollack) just got a little luckier than we did. And they need to pretend the same thing, lest they be mistaken for egomaniacs. On the other hand, if you?re good at something and have the opportunities to keep going (architectural firms are not for nothing called ?practices?) your gifts likely will out. And from time to time in this film I thought I detected , mostly from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Schickel on Movies | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...with little ideas. It can bring the third world into the global economy—once an Internet connection is available, voice over Internet Protocol makes it possible for real time collaboration even if one party is in Tijuana and the other in Tanzania, at essentially no additional cost. Lest this devolve into feel-good boosterism, it’s worth noting technology can be used to further less noble goals as well—as soon as Internet pipes hit the ground, oppressive regimes put their hands on the faucet...

Author: By Matthew A. Gline | Title: So Long, and Thanks for the Bits | 5/12/2006 | See Source »

...issue that the U.S., European, Russian diplomats at the U.N. would be wise to add to their agenda this week in New York. After all, lest anyone think this is a crisis for the Palestinians alone, the World Bank warns, "destabilization of this kind, if protracted, could also lead to a deterioration of the bilateral security environment - with adverse implications for the security of Israelis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is a Palestinian Civil War Breaking Out? | 5/9/2006 | See Source »

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