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...prolific English philosopher most famous for one big hit: the eponymous Ockham's razor. A champion of simplicity, Ockham made it his mission to argue that things should never be made more complicated than they have to be. If there are a lot of ways to explain a phenomenon, slice your answer as finely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections Are Not that Complicated | 2/15/2008 | See Source »

...Punishment and The Stranger--assigned by high schools, which have greater coercive power than even Viacom does. Others are barely ready for young-adult fiction. Dexter is not The Stranger, but it's not Saw either. Decency protests, however, don't make such distinctions. Killers are killers. One slice fits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Unkind Cut | 2/14/2008 | See Source »

...Tuesday was supposed to capture a slice of intellectual life here at Harvard.” says Caroline A. Bleeke ’10, co-editor of the magazine. “It’s catered to people with good ideas: we edit works to create publishable pieces.” Its annual issue hovers around 30-40 pages, which means The Gamut can similarly afford to publish a wide variety of poetry. Co-editor of the journal Liza D. Flum ’10 refers to her publication as less a competitor and more a supplement...

Author: By Anna I. Polonyi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OF RAGS AND RICHES | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...bulletproof vest. One could argue that the nonsensicality of these directorial decisions is in line with the nonsensicality of the song’s lyrics. These include “Can I have some of your cookies / Can I have some of your pie / May I cut the first slice / So won’t you scream?” This argument, however, doesn’t embrace the wondrous stupidity of this video. Let us not damn director Justin Francis for being wholly uncreative, or for managing to fetishize perhaps the only thing that has yet to be fetishized...

Author: By Ruben L. Davis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: Timbaland | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

...early spot on the calendar. Proportional delegate allotment - instead of winner-take-all results - would ensure that every vote mattered. Super Tuesday would be the closest thing we have ever seen to a national primary: a single day on which the candidates had to prove themselves to every slice of the American electorate in states that are home to nearly half the population of the country. It was supposed to settle everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's Not Over Yet | 2/7/2008 | See Source »

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