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...Ambassador’s Son” is a first-person narrative about a bratty Russian ambassador’s son, whose penchant for booze and broads is surprisingly moving...

Author: By Jessica C. Coggins, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Strangers Adrift In a Strange Land | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

...ability to communicate with the outside world. Perhaps the most surprising turn, however, is Ferrell. Though not quite as successful as Jim Carrey in “The Truman Show,” Ferrell restrains (mostly) his trademark goofy slapstick to play a sweet Christian rocker with a penchant for eyeliner...

Author: By David F. Hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Review: Winter Passing | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

Vegetarianism as an ideology is nothing new, but lately the practice has seemed trendily righteous. Perhaps owing to Harvard’s penchant for Hollywoodisms, everywhere I turn I find a vegetarian, or several of them...

Author: By Lucy M. Caldwell | Title: My Beef with Vegetarians... | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

...Suburbia, the thread that weaves between family and community?the keeper of the suburban dream?is the suburban housewife. In the absence of her commuting, city-working husband, she is first of all the manager of home and brood, and beyond that a sort of aproned activist with a penchant for keeping the neighborhood and community kettle whistling ... If she is not pregnant, she wonders if she is. She takes her peanut-butter sandwich lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor ... She wonders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 3/5/2006 | See Source »

...penchant for explaining things very well, also for throwing in humor and interesting examples,” says Alexander N. Harris ‘08, who took Economics 1017, is currently enrolled in Economics 1471, and also asked Miron to sponsor the Harvard Libertarian Forum, of which Harris is the president...

Author: By Lulu Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former BU Ec Chair Leaves Tenure, Visits Harvard | 3/2/2006 | See Source »

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