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...this may have less impact on short-term goals, most of which focus on soliciting input from the Harvard community...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Arts Task Force Urges Major Changes | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...Hobbes would have been proud of this film, a misanthrope’s delight. Films like this seem to exist only to prove Hobbes’s rage-fueled philosophical vision: that man cares only about his self-interest and that life is “nasty, brutish, and short.” Characters self-inflict tracheometries, saw their arms off, murder their compatriots to survive, and still end up dead. “Punisher: War Zone:” Not only does the protagonist get to realize his sadistic fantasies, but the film’s creators realize their...

Author: By Sanders I. Bernstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Four Projects of Hate in the Year Of Hope | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...take it like Snow White did, he may come, but that doesn’t mean he’s in love. —Beryl C. D. Lipton is an outgoing Campus Arts Editor and an incoming Arts Chair. She wants you to know that Beryl is short for CareBear...

Author: By Beryl C.D. Lipton, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Top Five Disney Lovers and Their Lies | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...casting himself as a populist, tax-cutting antidote to Illinois' long tradition of corrupt politics. Indeed, the previous governor, George Ryan, had been fighting that reputation and in 2003 was charged with and later convicted of corruption. Blagojevich had a striking public image to go with his reformist politics. Short and fit, with a shock of dark brown feathered hair, he wore sharply cut suits that some of his admirers said looked pulled out of GQ. He also had his father-in-law's help with strategy, and he became the first Democrat elected governor of Illinois since the 1970s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fall of the House of Blagojevich | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

...camera. Even during Wednesday's press conference, the younger Jackson tried to distinguish himself from his father, saying it was Obama who inspired him. "I got the idea that if a skinny kid with a funny name could be President of the United States, then a short kid with a somewhat controversial but certainly a high-profile name could be a Senator from Illinois." Jackson said he hoped voters would "measure me based upon the content of my character," he said. (See pictures of Barack Obama's campaign behind the scenes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jesse Jackson Jr.: The Trouble with Being Candidate 5 | 12/11/2008 | See Source »

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