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...years, a producer he met while making Gothika in 2002 and by all accounts the crucial member of Team New Downey. "Other than Chaplin, it's the role he's gone after the hardest. He knew he could do it, and he knew he had to prove it to people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Robert Downey Jr.: Back from the Brink | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...nation—and Penn before deciding to join a young Crimson squad. Committing to a lesser-known team provided Gibbons with an opportunity countless players hope for—the chance to start immediately. But, such a quick introduction to the new level of play can often prove to be a trial by fire.“We’re asking a lot from him as a freshman,” tri-captain Brooks Scholl says. “We’re putting him against the best defensemen on each team.”While the highly...

Author: By Max N. Brondfield, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gibbons Steps Up In Rookie Role | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...work has come from its narrow focus. “We did not try to make a general model of what we found because much of its meaning would have been lost,” he said. Although the work may be narrow in its focus, it has proved widely applicable, he said, especially in the fields of social psychology and economics. “We did not anticipate a response to our work and certainly did not expect to be talking about it 35 years later,” Kahneman said, in reference to his work on rapid judgments...

Author: By Wyatt P. Gleichauf, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nobel Laureate Explains Intuition | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

...smug in our privilege that contact with that unfamiliar Other becomes a source of distaste. And while it may seem futile and even self-indulgent to sit uncomfortably in an armchair in William James feeling guilty, the opportunity for honest confrontation of our privilege as Harvard undergraduates will prove worthwhile as long as it informs future interactions with those that might not share in the same advantage. Rachel M. Singh ’10, a Crimson editorial editor, is a social studies concentrator in Pforzheimer House...

Author: By Rachel M Singh | Title: Outside the Comfortable | 4/14/2008 | See Source »

...rate, a trial-tested formula seems to have been proven once again—thanks a million, Scream. For now, only an advisory note: actually learning to count cards will prove far more rewarding than indulging Hollywood’s proclivity to value audiences over authenticity, and ticket sales over true-to-life adaptations...

Author: By James M. Larkin | Title: A Shameless Bust | 4/13/2008 | See Source »

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