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...conducted the very first housing poll for The Crimson and published the results showing which upperclass Houses were popular, much to the chagrin of the administration, which preferred all Houses to appear equally appealing...
...popular appeal of the new film “Jack and Jill vs. the World” rests primarily on its once-famous heartthrob, Freddie Prinze, Jr., whose 90s career is on the verge of being forgotten by the current teeny-bopper audience. The “She’s All That” star emerges from the depths of post-teen stardom, slightly older and chubbier, to reclaim his role as pretty boy. Prinze’s mediocre performance is a perfect match to the film’s corny plot, which isn’t terrible...
...title track embodies all of this. Mills throws in “woo-hoo” harmonies and Stipe spits one-liners like “Death is pretty final / I’m collecting vinyl.” The song is a reminder of why R.E.M. became popular in the first place. Like all bands that demonstrate a certain degree of longevity, the question remains whether to judge R.E.M. by previous standards of greatness or by their recent output. The album clearly doesn’t measure up to the I.R.S. classics, “Out of Time...
...when junior environment Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet to call fellow conservatives "an army of cowards" after a cock-up involving controversial legislation on genetically modified crops. Kosciusko-Morizet told Le Monde that her immediate boss, Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo, and parliamentary leader of her own conservative Union for a Popular Movement (UMP), Jean-François Copé, had engaged in "a contest of cowardice and inelegance" in cynically refusing to back her up in a tight spot for their own political gain. The spectacle of a cabinet member publicly slagging off her ministerial superior and the majority leader...
...world's largest English-speaking population), but Hindi has spiced the language with a masala of words long-since codified in its dictionaries: chit, guru, jungle, pajamas, pundit, sentry, shampoo, and thug, to name just a few. Indian cuisine long ago surpassed fish-and-chips as Britain's most popular restaurant food. Or, at least, "Anglo-Indian" - England's most popular "Indian" dish, chicken tikka masala, is actually a British invention, since exported to the land that inspired it. Indian property and hotel developers borrow the lexicon of their English counterparts, using terms such as park, mews or estate...