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...into his bourgeois world, and to ultimately seduce him, she transforms herself from a gawky ingenue into a ruby-lipped Mata Hari. She's initially playing a role. But her performance shades into real feeling, and their affair begins to blur the difference between seducer and seduced, becoming a mirror of the war outside: the bedroom is their battleground. "Love is the ultimate occupation," Lee says. "It's basically what the movie is about: she has to do this performance to withstand his scrutiny as an interrogator. Through which they have a taste of love, and it's very scary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Infernal Affair | 10/4/2007 | See Source »

...male penguins titled “And Tango Makes Three.” “Typically, in history, censorship has been frivolously and over-extensively applied,” said Lawrence Buell, the Cabot Professor of American Literature. “You look back in a rearview mirror and it’s embarrassing the results. I wouldn’t say censorship is categorically one hundred percent to be prohibited, but it is to be applied with extreme care.” Jocelyn Chadwick, a former assistant professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author...

Author: By Rachel A. Stark, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Bibliophiles Censure Censorship | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

...that a mirror in your pocket? Because I can see myself in your pants.” Undoubtedly one of the University’s most effective pick-up lines, this classic phrase was recently put to the test—literally. A study conducted by researchers in the Departments of Anthropology at Harvard University, McMaster University, and Florida State University found that men with deep voices wield greater reproductive abilities. Translation? Dudes with lower voices might get more girls. FM set out to confirm this study, using a more familiar tribe. Fifteen female students listened to four equally handsome...

Author: By Julia M. Spiro, CONTRIBUTING WRITERS | Title: How Low Can You Go? | 10/3/2007 | See Source »

Most remarkable, though, was the odd humility that marked our space enterprise. Yes, in the historical mirror, some of it seems overdone: the astronauts in silver space suits (when military green would have served just as well), shedding names like Virgil and Donald and Gordon for Gus and Deke and Gordo. But that was done with a cultural wink, one that belied the workmanlike ethos beneath the effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space Brains | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...with the play action pass, and they’ve given us problems.”What also might be a problem for the Crimson is the logistical change that comes with a night game. The team adjusted its last pre-game practice yesterday to 7:30 p.m. to mirror game conditions, but it’ll take more than that for the players to feel completely comfortable with playing a game seven hours later than normal.“Saturday’s torture for football coaches, night games are just torture,” Murphy said...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Saturday Night Lights | 9/21/2007 | See Source »

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