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...good to me baby.” All appearances aside, it’s Avril Lavigne singing with complete disregard for her old “Boys suck!” mantra. The rest of the album is mainly composed of similarly predictable insta-songs. The phrase (if you can call it that) “Hey, you!” seems to have been cut and pasted into as many of the album’s tracks as possible. The title track finds Lavigne singing, “Let me hear...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Avril Lavigne | 4/20/2007 | See Source »

...million effects-ravaganza about dueling alien robot races, the protagonist could have been Will Smith or magazine-cover bait like Justin Timberlake. But Cullen was the voice of the character Optimus Prime in the Transformers TV show, a treasured part of the canon for true fans. (If the phrase "robots in disguise" sets your toes atappin', you may be one of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Boys Who Like Toys | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

...court also turned back arguments that the law was too vague and an "undue burden" on the constitutional right. The law's challengers said its imprecision would stop not only "intact D&E" - the controversial process of removing the fetus whole (hence the phrase partial birth) - but also standard D&E, which involves removing the fetus in pieces. Together, the procedures account for most second-trimester abortions. But Kennedy, writing for the court majority of himself, Clarence Thomas, Antonin Scalia, John Roberts and Samuel Alito, said the statute was plenty precise, especially since a doctor couldn't violate it without...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Court's Pro-Choice Silver Lining | 4/18/2007 | See Source »

...essence, Wayne is a rap son. And what could be better than a starting backcourt of Drew Housman and Dwayne Carter for next year’s Crimson? Dropping dimes to Evan Harris in the post, it would give new meaning to the phrase “The Block...

Author: By Malcom A. Glenn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE MALCOM X-FACTOR: New Rap Game For Harvard Hoops? | 4/17/2007 | See Source »

...themselves. The Task Force’s preliminary report emphasized the importance and inherent value of so-called “liberal learning,” defined as the “free inquiry undertaken without concern for topical relevance or vocational utility”—a phrase that was, perhaps for the best, removed by a unanimous vote of the Faculty at that April 13 meeting...

Author: By Christopher B. Lacaria | Title: Don’t Know Much About History | 4/15/2007 | See Source »

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