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...local, departmental level,” Brown said. The organismic and evolutionary biology student strongly encouraged direct participation. “Sometimes you feel like the University is an organism for making committees and nothing comes out of it,” Brown said. To counter this, he held pseudo-elections for positions on the GSC Executive Board, GSC Committees, and University committees, ranging from the Harvard College Safety Committee to the FAS Library Committee. But the energy in the room was lukewarm, dampened by the thick smell of pineapple pizza. “You just all elected Sarah...
...malls” filled with hundreds of fake-stuff-stalls, selling everything from North Face to Abercrombie to Coach to print shirts with lazy translations (one read, “Let’s Do The Dancing Team Beach Volleyball”).After the first week, these pseudo-Western products all begin to fade into the rest of the novelty that is Shanghai. I love that I bought the entire James Bond collection compressed onto three DVDs, but I’ve been trying to find something under the pirated, superficial materialism that has saturated far too much of Shanghai.In...
...killer investigation. The movie kicks off hard and fast, introducing our protagonists as they fire guns at targets to the sensory assault of pounding guitar riffs and flashy credits. You would think it was an action film, right? Instead, the movie descends into a plodding suspense thriller with eerie pseudo-philosophical voiceovers, hints of love triangle, and stylish cuts from scene to scene, all while still managing to evade any morsel of complexity or implied action. Soon you realize that these movie legends are being paid millions to pull a simple trick on you. But at that point, your...
...that Matt had “virtually flawless grades and SAT scores” and “scored fives on ten Advanced Placement Exams,” among other things. Harvard has seen its fair share of new and sensational publications, from the ill-fated Scene to the pseudo-erotic H-Bomb, but never anything quite like this. In fact, I wonder if the world has ever seen a magazine featuring a nine-page interview with its editor, complete with nude photographs. Questions ranging from what effect the nude spread will have on di Pasquale’s future...
There is a growing body of evidence that suggests that the human brain is not well equipped to distinguish between real relationships and - as psychologists call them - "parasocial," or imagined ones. That means that some of the benefits people get from pseudo relationships with celebrities may be the same as those reaped from real friendships and real-life interactions. It's just a matter of degree. So it's O.K. to get caught up in Palinmania if her example makes you feel better about your chaotic life of juggling work and family - as long as you realize...