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...writing 10-screen long plan files, filled with every obscure reference, movie line and aphorism they've collected over the past year. Such hodgepodge plan files are universally condemned by the critics. If you're about to put down 40 or so witty saying please keep the following maxim mind: Unless you're Voltaire, I really don't care...
...shuttle map, things definitely change. In fact, Quadlings commonly agree that even platonic cross-campus friendships run into difficulty when one partner is shipped off to Old Radcliffe. But Quad-bound first-years shouldn't panic yet. While it's true that most Quad residents refute the maxim "absence makes the River heart grow fonder," it's also true that many claim assimilation into Quad culture to be a preferred alternative. And some even go so far as to assert that space has a positive effect on social relationships...
...resist the urge to adopt opinions that appear to derive from our identities and instead cloak ourselves in the liberal traditions of open-minded observation, logic, and close analysis. Instead of sticking by our favored X, Y constructions, maybe we should instead subscribe only to a single shared maxim: As a student, I feel curious...
...Maxim, to its credit, will have none of that, or only a little. It is ironic about its dumbness in the manner of a show like South Park, which is to say that the irony is often barely discernible, white noise for a generation that likes to laugh unapologetically at poo and look at pictures of breasts without feeling that Patricia Ireland is peeking over anyone's shoulders. In its British form, like competitor FHM, Maxim is what is known as a "laddie" magazine, the periodical of choice for soccer hooligans. Its real secret is that virtually all the articles...
...news last week was that Details editor Michael Caruso was fired even though Maxim-ization had helped the magazine to recoup several years' worth of circulation losses. The new hire is none other than Maxim's editor, Mark Golin, who came to the magazine just a year ago from Cosmo. (Conspiracy?) Details, he says, won't "become Maxim," though it will "certainly have women and beer in it." He is tired of the criticism that Maxim has dumbed the category down. "Is civilization really coming to an end? Come on, you can get pictures of women and donkeys...