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Mick Jagger’s voice is still potent after all these years, and he still can strut his way all over the stage. Richards can play guitar with the best of them, despite looking closer to rigor mortis than a rock star for some time now. The local gossip surrounding the band centered around their subdued, healthy pre-show habits instead of raging booze fests. In spite of this, or perhaps because of it, the Stones, who formed when Bill Russell was helping to win the Celtics championship banners that now hang on the FleetCenter ceiling, were...
This reasoning does not even attempt to meet the necessary burden of proof. Such arguments discredit the academic rigor of this institution and signal an ominous start to President Summers’ second year...
After a few epic-size Hollywood films (Erin Brockovich, Traffic, Ocean's Eleven), director Steven Soderbergh has gone small. Full Frontal, his terrific new movie, is intimate and innovative. It boasts rules of Dogma-like rigor: the budget was $2 million; the shoot took just three weeks; most of it was photographed (by the director) on video; the stars were responsible for their own makeup; no limos or trailers were allowed. He also constructed a Chinese box of a film-within-a-film-within-a-film. The result is his liveliest experiment since the strenuously weird Schizopolis six years...
...very least, I gravitated to activities that seemed to build my persona outside the stereotype. In this way, I spent nearly four years paralyzed by the stereotype. Partially out of fears of falling into the athlete trap, I signed on to a concentration that, due to the rigor of its tutorial program, was almost devoid of athletes. Even writing for The Crimson seemed the “unathletic” thing to do. If I had to do it over again, I might attempt to be more active in fighting the stereotype instead of running from...
Even those who are leaving say they will miss the University’s intellectual atmosphere and rigor...