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...goes after her co-writer’s sound on “Miles Away,” the song that chronicles a couple’s attempt to stay together even with an ocean between them. With its dreamy chorus and hooks aplenty, it’s an overt attempt to mimic JT’s “What Comes Around…Goes Around;” but in the end, it’s better...

Author: By Christopher C. Baker, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Madonna | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

Although they are ostensibly “fairy tales,” the stories of the Brothers Grimm are often comically inappropriate for children. The German brothers removed much of the overt sexuality from their retellings of traditional folk tales, but they seemed to have a soft spot for dismembering their younger characters and feeding them to the wolves. This Saturday, Harvard’s Sunken Garden Children’s Theater will bring twisted Grimm humor to audiences of all ages with their performance of “The Three Spinners.” Choosing a Brothers Grimm story...

Author: By Mark A. Vanmiddlesworth, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Sunken Garden Spins Their Yarn | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...queer sense of humor rather than the gun-pulling action. In contrast, the new story is stuffed into kitschy, reductive binaries: life versus death, Hispanic versus white.“Her Dog” isn’t a letdown because of its reductive symbolism and overt motifs, but because it’s just an inexplicable anomaly. A man walks his dead wife’s dog out of a sense of obligation. Nice notion—but the story quickly disintegrates into a hokey dialogue between the main character and the dog.In his stories about the military...

Author: By April B. Wang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Minutiae Make 'Story' | 4/11/2008 | See Source »

...Better or for Worse I was a big fan of Bill Clinton's until he started campaigning for his wife [March 10]. For what seemed like the first time, there was overt negativity in the race, and it came from someone who wasn't even running! Hillary would have been better off standing on her own. She could have taken the high road, but Bill's words and actions pushed her off it. Unfortunately, I no longer feel the same toward the former President, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Erin Borry, Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 3/20/2008 | See Source »

...Bill Clinton's until he started campaigning for his wife [March 10]. For what seemed like the first time, there was overt negativity in the race, and it came from someone who wasn't even running! Hillary would have been better off standing on her own. She could have taken the high road, but Bill's words and actions pushed her off it. Unfortunately, I no longer feel the same toward the former President, and I'm sure I'm not alone. Erin Borry, NEWARK...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Better or for Worse | 3/19/2008 | See Source »

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