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...most basic statistics class can remind us, correlation does not equal causation, and there is no convincing evidence of a causal effect here. There are simply too many lurking variables—socially awkward teenagers may play violent video games, but so do many perfectly happy teens. We cannot prove that playing the games somehow morphs teens into serial killers...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Tragedy and Reason | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...guys,” he said.Yet McFadden maintained that they learn from the criticism and that he doesn’t take the flak personally. “That’s sort of what’s fun about the CEB—working our hardest, trying to prove people wrong about Harvard not being a fun place,” McFadden said.Mee, who somewhat damningly chose the resurrected Blink-182 as hisdream Yardfest artist, agreed that they were always hoping to improve on previous years. “The CEB is very young—we still have...

Author: By Alexander J. Ratner, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yardfest, Unfenced | 3/17/2009 | See Source »

...driven nature of cable news and the viral powerhouse that is YouTube. And like so many panicked reports, this bleak prognosis on the health of American journalism grimly alludes to the 1930s as a way to really emphasize the dire straits we're in: "If estimates by Advertising Age prove accurate, total spending on advertising fell for the second consecutive year. Another decline is predicted for 2009. That would mark the first consecutive three-year decline in advertising spending since the Great Depression." And thanks to such desperate circumstances, news organizations are becoming less adversarial by joining forces to save...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The State of the Media: Not Good | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...student-teacher relationship, divulging the unspoken sexual tensions that can develop when malleable adolescents love and respect their role models a little too much.This well-cast group of boys quickly traps the audience’s attention with their slapstick humor and catchy one-liners; however, they soon prove to be more than a bunch of goofballs. Each one bright and opinionated, they straddle the line between embracing 1980s counter-culture, and respecting the old-world tradition embedded in British society.Fueling their taste for literature, self-expression, and the corruptible purity of art, Hector declares, “Forget Oxford...

Author: By Noël D. Barlow, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Male Mystery in 'History Boys' | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

...Funes, who was a popular on-air reporter for CNN en Español before entering politics, those challenges could prove as daunting as waging war against a U.S.-backed government was for his FMLN forebears. It's still not clear how ready ARENA and its more hard-line backers are to accept Funes' narrow victory of 51% to Avila's 49%. But Avila's prompt concession was an encouraging sign that El Salvador will probably avoid unrest. And it was just as encouraging a signal that the country may have completed its evolution from a 20th century "tomb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: El Salvador's Left Wins with the Ballot, Not the Bullet | 3/16/2009 | See Source »

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