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Most recently, a slew of elite universities—led by Harvard and followed by Yale, Stanford, and a host of others—significantly expanded financial aid offerings, potentially making them even more attractive to applicants who had been previously dissuaded by the sticker shock of high tuition...

Author: By Ahmed N. Mabruk, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: College Applicant Pool May Shrink | 3/11/2008 | See Source »

This past Saturday, as a part of a slew of activities thrown for Junior Parents Weekend, the Harvard College Marathon Challenge brought parents and students together at 8:30 a.m. to sweat and pant around the campus...

Author: By Gordon Y. Liao, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Junior Parents Compete in Marathon Run Around Campus | 3/10/2008 | See Source »

...Then we have Michael X, the hilariously stereotypical fist-raising Black Panther from Trinidad. He’s one of the bad guys, the movie tells us—can’t you tell from the Malcolm X posters and the afro? There’s also a slew of other characters, including Terry’s Eastender crew, a porn director, iconic British bobbies, and numerous sketchy government cover-up artists in suits. Finally, we have Martine Love, played by Saffron Burrows, who serves as the requisite gorgeous female lead and plays Terry’s foil...

Author: By Alec E Jones, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Bank Job | 3/7/2008 | See Source »

...Caveny's script. Penelope has been so scarred by the superficial way she's been judged that, when she goes into a local pub, she wears a kerchief across the middle of her face, forcing her to drink a glass of beer with a straw. Caveny also has a slew of sow jokes to subject us to. "Bad nose job," notes Reese Witherspoon, who shows up at the bar (and was one of the film's producers). And when Penelope gorges on Ho-Hos, her mother asks, "Oh, now you're just going to make a pig of yourself?" Penelope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Other Boleyn Girl: When Child Stars Grow Up | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

...around for thousands of years in one form or another. For many of these years—specifically that era in which The Beatles were bigger than God—guitar-playing was in, and it was producing memorable songs. Nowadays we have canned bands like Nickelback and a slew of others who can’t even write their own music. Meanwhile, actual guitar gods are on the decline. In January of this year, Activision, Inc. announced that the “Guitar Hero” franchise had earned over a billion dollars in revenue in just 26 months...

Author: By Andrew F. Nunnelly, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Tragic Death of the Guitar Hero | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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