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...stack up to houses like Mather when it comes to unbridled House pride. But to some degree, that seems to come from a belief that Lowellians have no need to prove how great their house is. Why make a video for housing day when it could always look silly??doesn’t everyone want to be in Lowell anyway...

Author: By Eric P. Newcomer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Lowell House | 3/10/2010 | See Source »

...plays a very prevalent role in our society. Nevertheless, they never seem to acknowledge it in any particular instance, including within sports, where a predominantly white, middle aged media talk about young, black men with frequency. At any rate, to say race is irrelevant to the Vick scandal is silly??the fact of the matter is that black people and white people saw it differently, and that means something. A Pew Research Center poll had 51 percent of African Americans saying the coverage of Vick was unfair in contrast to only 12 percent of whites. A New York...

Author: By Aparicio J. Davis | Title: Bridging the Perception Gap | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...Martin’s commissioned a report about Let’s Go that panned the series as “young,” “commercial,” “beginner’s guidebook,” with “frivolous, silly?? humor. The report, which was based on four San Francisco focus groups, suggested that Let’s Go discontinue its guides and reopen with a different brand name. “It is extremely difficult to change an image of a brand which has lost its stature...

Author: By Clifford M. Marks, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Publisher, Guide Agree To Let Go | 9/24/2007 | See Source »

...Faced with the reality of my limitations, I decided I had to throw out my old definition of “doing well” and find another one. I busied myself with “soul-searching” activities that now seem silly??like enrolling in a philosophy class and taking evening runs along the Charles. And I waited, as if meaning would drop from the sky and hit me. While I did discover the beauty of the Charles at sunset and learned a lot about Descartes’ existential crises, those pursuits did not yield...

Author: By Imran M. Saleh | Title: On Doing Well | 6/4/2007 | See Source »

...test subject requires sacrifices, including boredom (I once spent an hour staring at a computer monitor full of Ls to find a solitary T) and time that would otherwise be spent stalking the Facebook.com news feeds of my crushes. So why do I do it? For the satisfaction, silly??the satisfaction of knowing that I am a part of something larger than myself. Which really means that I’m in it for the money, just like all the other study subject whores who trek to the ninth floor of William James Hall to get five bucks...

Author: By Brittney L. Moraski, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Go Crazy; Get Real Paid | 9/27/2006 | See Source »

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