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...obvious untouchable luxuries, such as the stunning pearl-and-diamond Chanel brooch that graces our cover or the $172,425 limited-edition Montblanc pen smothered in diamonds. Hey, how about a $49,500 handmade Vividus bed from Sweden? Some luxuries are priceless. A quick poll of peers would probably reveal that most people consider time to be their greatest indulgence, especially in this age of 24/7 mobile communication devices. Others might list dream destinations where they can disappear (and turn off the BlackBerry) for some respite: a bicycle ride through the Versailles gardens in France or a séjour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: New Horizons | 12/6/2006 | See Source »

...continues. “Buckets were stationed in the wings. The Green Room looked like a battlefield, but the show went on.”A QUESTION OF ORIGINThe Crimson’s own inquiries into the origins of the group inadvertently sparked a debate that revealed a contested detail in the genesis of the group. The problem emerged in the form of two contradictory accounts of HRG&SP’s beginnings, both found on the group’s website.The first, from the “History” section, states that “The Harvard-Radcliffe...

Author: By Alina Voronov, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gilbert and Sullivan: 50 Years of Whimsy, Onstage and Off | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

...Seitz ’10, who planned on submitting an entry. “I have a lot of ideas. It’s easy to tell which ones are bad, but it’s hard to know if any are good.” Seitz would not reveal much about the progress of his magnum opus, but he said he noticed a trend in his ideas. “I find myself straying toward something really morbid,” he says. “I’ll probably end up painting some sort of death...

Author: By Shannon E. Flynn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Literature Nano | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...It’s a Mexican style lucha libre” he says, pleased to reveal himself a wrestling aficionado. “I wear it for, frankly, the in your face aspect….I like to back up what I say, like to have some heft behind it. It was confrontational. I’m proud of where I’m from…and,” he adds with a laugh, “I really like pro wrestling...

Author: By Francesca M. Mari, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Seeking the Avenger | 11/29/2006 | See Source »

...Baron Cohen criticizes all the things Borat pretends to admire and uses Borat's faked attitudes and stories to reveal the hidden resentments within the people he encounters. As a Jew, Baron Cohen carries Borat's anti-Semitism to the extreme, thus making a laughingstock of it while also revealing the bigotry of the unsuspecting people he is fooling. Borat's imaginary Kazakhstan serves the same purpose. He is making fun not of Kazakhs but of arrogant, ignorant Westerners who overrate their own cultures. Dominik Mauer Augsburg, Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

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