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...from UC presidential candidates to world record holders to that kid who wore shorts all winter. Every time I tried to do something absolutely crazy, some kid from the Advocate came along and did the exact same thing ironically. How could anyone compete with that? I felt like a poster hung up at 7:15 and then rapidly covered up by eight other posters, each advertising an event just as mundane as my own.By senior year, I came to terms with my lack of fame. The people who I cared about knew who I was. If Gossip Geek was going...

Author: By Sachi A. Ezura | Title: Aiming for the A-List | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...poster child for interdisciplinary collaboration is the Mind, Brain and Behavior Initiative (MBB), a research consortium and set of concentration tracks that had already drawn the interest of 100 undergraduates in September 1995, the tracks’ inaugural year...

Author: By Christian B. Flow and Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Under New Regime, Harvard's 'Tubs' Find a Common Bottom | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...handling of crises. Having discarded its Marxist-Leninist ideology, the government is increasingly reliant on public approval for its legitimacy. Netizens responded rapturously to Wen's TV appearances: "I couldn't help crying when I saw the pictures of Premier Wen in the stricken region," wrote one poster in a typical online comment. "I feel very safe to have a wonderful leader like this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Helping Hands | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...long been the human face of the Communist Party. Netizens responded rapturously. "I couldn't help crying when I saw the pictures of Premier Wen in the stricken region," wrote a poster in a typical comment. "I feel very safe to have a wonderful leader like this." The praise will reassure the party hierarchy. Having long since discarded their Marxist-Leninist ideology, China's leaders are increasingly dependent on the approval of the public for their legitimacy; the survival of the party may ultimately depend on its handling of crises...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: Roused by Disaster | 5/22/2008 | See Source »

...writer-director's dad, David, devised this year's festival poster: a lipsticked woman in some unknown peril, her eyes masked by a censor's black strip. Jennifer's new feature, her first since the 1993 Boxing Helena, has some of that eerie mystery; it's an authentic, systematically annoying weirdie about the investigation of a roadside homicide. Five were brutally killed by a couple of maniacs in leatherface masks. Now the three shaken survivors are being questioned in a police station by two outside agents (Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond) who are skeptical of the variations in the stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Critical Snapshot in 10 Reviews or Less | 5/21/2008 | See Source »

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