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...desire to arouse jealousy in exes and single friends and the need for attention. Such motives, which would be decried as narcissistic in face-to-face conversation, somehow become socially acceptable when affirmed in the impersonal space of the Internet, where the safe barrier of the computer screen, and the absence of fact-checkers, separates the poster from the viewer and reality from fiction. The pervasive force of modern voyeurism—the fact that we can know intimate details about a person’s life and relationships without ever interacting with them, whether through Facebook, tabloids, or reality...

Author: By Courtney A. Fiske | Title: Relationship Status on Facebook: | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...deficit to one. Rogers’s three weekend goals vaulted him into first place on the Crimson with 19 points this season. With 2:03 left in the period, freshman Alex Killorn notched the game-tying goal on a power play. Using senior Nick Coskren’s screen, the first-year snapped a shot past the skate of a distracted LaVeau.Harvard kept up the pressure in the third, but was the victim of a counterattack early in the period. After a series of Crimson attempts on goal, the Golden Knights gained control of the puck and quickly skated...

Author: By Jake I. Fisher, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Tie Against Clarkson Keeps Harvard Rooted in Fourth | 2/23/2009 | See Source »

...startling not just for its inventiveness but for its almost erotic intensity. They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would snuggle into Dean's shoulder; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy - a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last. In 1956, 10 years to the day after they had first paid, Martin and Lewis split, In a decade of famous divorces, this was the most seismic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jerry Lewis Wins an Oscar at Last | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...miserable as it appears? Everybody has to eat. Everybody has to put clothes on their back, and drive to work, and take care of their homes and go about their routine stuff. They are still interested in products that save money. People are still going to be buying flat screen TVs, because they think it's a tradeoff with going to the movies, and it keeps the family at home. So I think there's a basic level of consumption out there that isn't going to change. I credit our President for giving a sense of confidence that something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Consumers Shop Differently Today | 2/22/2009 | See Source »

...Harris picks up his second trying to set screen. He fouled out last night. Not a good sign so far. Stays on floor for a sec, then Wright reps...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LIVE BLOG: HARVARD at Penn | 2/21/2009 | See Source »

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