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...inducing and entirely unfunny. It’s clear the actors are attempting to satirize Hollywood, but since most of the jokes are about transsexuals or the vapidity of actress Sophie Maes, played by “Transformers” hottie Megan Fox, this goal remains safely out of reach. Sophie slurs her speech, extols the virtues of vegetarianism, and owns a pet chihuahua, as if the creators of the film woke up and decided that mocking Paris Hilton was a novel and exciting idea. “I resent being forced to gush,” Sidney whines...

Author: By Jessica R. Henderson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'How to Lose Friends and Alienate People' | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Harvard College Library, which is now holding an exhibit in Pusey Library through Dec. 23. Tweed Roosevelt ’64, Vice-Chair of the Theodore Roosevelt Association, says that the association was more than happy to facilitate Burn’s work. “Books reach many Americans. But films reach many, many more,” he said. Burns is famous for bringing history to life, even when dealing with periods before the advent of the moving image. One technique people who use Apple editing software will be familiar with is his namesake, the Ken Burns Effect...

Author: By Rebecca A. Schuetz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ken Burns Pans Over National Parks | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...question very succinctly: “What exactly is reading?” In an age in which information technology and even the use of paper are rapidly transforming, this question is less obvious than it sounds. If, as seems evident now, this youngest generation of Americans will reach maturity in an unpredictably advanced technological landscape, one with unprecedented levels of connectivity and functionality, who is to say that their method learning will resemble that of the past, or even our own, in any very precise way? Now is hardly the time to insist on a reactionary return...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Literacy First | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...expects the United States to suddenly care about the rest of the world’s problems. But that’s precisely why it should do so now. Most expect any further U.S. aid to come from philanthropists. If instead the United States leads the charge to reach the MDGs—the world’s single most prized project—during its own “domestic” emergency, it will receive approbation it hasn’t enjoyed in years...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Out of the Shadows | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...overall goal is to get the attention of university leadership to focus with laser-like attention on cost,” Welch said in a phone interview from Vermont yesterday. “They can’t keep expecting the taxpayers to subsidize tuitions that are constantly beyond reach...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks and Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Rep Pushes Payout Bill | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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