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Happily, Blow (based on Bruce Porter’s book of the same name) has enough merit to avoid easy aphorisms. The title refers to cocaine, but Blow isn’t intended to be a drug movie in the sense that Traffic or Trainspotting are drug movies. It assumes...

Author: By Daryl Sng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BLOW explodes onto the Big Screen | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

Henry Rollins is no ordinary mortal. Not only does he still, at age 40, have a neck thicker than his head, he is the only man I know of to have successfully combined careers as rock singer in a respected band and as a standup man, as well as producing...

Author: By Andrew R. Iliff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: New Albums: Henry Rollins | 4/6/2001 | See Source »

Shelflessness refers to the short shelf life of movies when the moment of hyped release has passed, the process whereby a film may rapidly be drained of all the vitality and interest that made it seem so urgent when it came out. We wander the aisles, staring disconsolately at titles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And the Best Picture for 1950 Is.... | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

The Qur'an--Islam's holist book--talks about Jihad, which can be translated as "holy war." The term refers to the kinds of wars that took place between Muslims and Christians during the Crusades.

Author: By Nader R. Hasan, NADER R. HASAN | Title: Islam Is Not the Enemy | 3/21/2001 | See Source »

Moses spoke to the COOL crowd about his work with the Algebra Project and what he refers to as "sharecropper education," or the system of educational inequity leftover from the years following the Civil War.

Author: By Rachel E. Dry, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Service Group Honors Civil Rights Leader | 3/19/2001 | See Source »

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