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Walmart loves to shock and awe. City-size stores, absurdly low prices ($8 jeans!) and everything from milk to Matchbox toys on its shelves. And with the recession forcing legions of stores into bankruptcy, the world's largest retailer now apparently wants to take out the remaining survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Walmart's Latest Move to Crush the Competition | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

News of the advertisement spread quickly as students expressed their shock and anger over various organization and House e-mail lists. The Crimson received over 20 separate e-mails as well as a joint letter signed by over 30 undergraduates—including several Crimson editors...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Holocaust Ad Printed in The Crimson Elicits Outrage | 9/9/2009 | See Source »

With hair that sometimes reveals a shock of white, sometimes goes all black, Miyuki Hatoyama, 66, is striking enough in person. That she is visible at all is a surprise. In Japan, the wives of politicians are often neither seen nor heard. But Miyuki Hatoyama has become something of an international media phenomenon because of remarks in a book she once wrote - and, oh yes, because her husband, Yukio Hatoyama, 62, is assuming the office of Prime Minister after what many are calling one of the most important elections in post-war Japanese history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Japan's First Lady: Introducing 'Mrs. Occult' | 9/7/2009 | See Source »

...FROM HARVARD TO RAMENNew York is famous for its struggling musicians, and those with Harvard diplomas are no exception. For Snyder, this meant the need to “subsist on pb&j for months at a time.”Life as a starving artist came as a shock to many of the musicians after the support they claimed to have received as undergraduates—from a new recording studio at Hilles to performance venues where some of the bands first got their start. Snyder created The States in the basement of Leverett F Tower his junior year...

Author: By Rebecca J. Levitan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let Them Rock | 9/4/2009 | See Source »

...also hoping the con woman isn't too hard on the factory or its owner; it's Bateman's great gift to be able to make us inordinately fond of a rock-solid average guy. He's become so good at this that it comes as a delightful shock when he plays against type, as in Juno, in which his character turned out to be a jerk, giving the movie just the jolt it needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mike Judge's Extract: Full of Flavor | 9/3/2009 | See Source »

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