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...indignities visited upon Dartboard since his kicking, screaming Quadding last March. Dartboard’s very means of escape from the erstwhile Radcliffe dorms is an existential insult: the Khruschevan reminiscence that is the Shuttle. Confronted each morning by the Shuttle’s dingy used-to-be-crimson paint job and dimly-lit interior, Dartboard has started to feel like a washed-up actor who, on an agent’s bad advice, has taken on an interminably recurring guest role on “That...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboard | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...really hate lines. I get very upset with the people standing in them sometimes. Waiting in lines, the philosophy of lines, it’s very annoying. I also wear a very big, paint-covered sweatshirt when I write...

Author: By Crimson Staff, | Title: Spotlight | 10/31/2003 | See Source »

...probably a bad idea for Boston ground-keepers to paint the World Series logo on the Fenway Park grass on Thursday. That was tempting the Red Sox's 85-year-old Curse of the Bambino. Or of Buckner. And now Boone--as in Aaron--who smacked an 11th-inning homer to propel the hated-rival Yankees to the World Series. The only memento that Sox fans had to treasure was an editorial in the New York Post lamenting that the Yankees may have "acquired a curse of their own" after losing the seventh game. The editorial, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And Wasn't That Thomas E. Dewey At Shortstop? | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

Though University President Lawrence H. Summers continues to paint the prospect of an undergraduate campus in Allston as mere speculation, the fact that it remains on the table as a possibility means that current undergraduates should take a keen interest in developments across the River. While recent developments such as the creation of several ad-hoc student-faculty committees shows that the administration is at least trying to consult students, it has yet to be seen if these committees will be listened to and their recommendations made into visible change. Until then, students should not be surprised to read about...

Author: By Justin R. Chapa, | Title: Look Both Ways Before Crossing the River | 10/27/2003 | See Source »

...movie can create a genre. When Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon became a worldwide smash, esteemed directors saw the chance to paint their visions on a larger canvas, and producers were happy to bankroll them. Zhang Yimou's Hero was one such honorable spinoff. Now comes He Ping's Warriors of Heaven and Earth, China's official entry for the foreign-language Academy Award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crouching Camel... | 10/20/2003 | See Source »

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