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...beginning echoing the panels at the end, with a grand mirror-image spread at its heart. Palindromes, reflections, symmetries--Watchmen teems with them. Look at Rorschach's face. They give visual life to the tensions that animate the story, between the chaotic flow of time and the perfect frozen moment (each panel is one), and ultimately, between good and evil...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Watchmen Fan's Notes | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...comic has something to say on this question. Are you an idealist like Rorschach, who insists on absolutes, black and white? Or a pragmatist like Ozymandias, who deals in shades of gray? Ozymandias would go. Rorschach wouldn't. The point of the comic is that neither position is perfect or even tenable. But a choice must be made. To quote the master's final words: "I leave it entirely in your hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Watchmen Fan's Notes | 3/5/2009 | See Source »

...what the coaches told her to do.”Another key player on the sophomore roster, Buesser is most renowned for her unwavering dedication to the game. While early on in the season Buesser struggled to put the puck in the net, practice has allowed her to perfect her shot. “Buesser is a player that will always give everything that she has in practice and in the lifting room and obviously in games,” Vaillancourt said. “In the second half of the season, she has been a really important player...

Author: By Alexandra E. Zimbler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Looks to Sophomores for Production | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...proposed budget. Nancy Tauber said that she was “extremely pleased” and Fred Fantini said that this was “the smoothest budget process” he had seen. Patricia M. Nolan ’80 called the financial crisis “the perfect storm for Cambridge,” because a recession could decrease private school enrollment and bring more funding to public school system, which get more funding when their enrollment grows. Nolan said the growing school age population in the city, in conjunction with the financial crisis, could...

Author: By Sofia E. Groopman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Schools Raise Budget | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

...results say that these diets would work the same.” The researchers said that these findings do not invalidate the effectiveness of any commercial diets, only that no one diet is better than another. “The public might be confused as to what the perfect diet is, and this study suggests people should be focusing... on counting calories,” said Stephen D. Anton, a professor at the University of Florida who trained the dietitians who helped conduct the study. “It’s hard to predict how the weight loss industry...

Author: By Helen X. Yang, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Study Justifies Calorie Counting | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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