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...Vendetta” is a slight exception. The film substitutes the latex-clad Jessica Alba type for an emaciated, bald-headed Natalie Portman ’03 and a childlike plot for what attempts to be an eye opening political satire...

Author: By Adam P Schneider, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: V for Vendetta | 3/15/2006 | See Source »

Comparisons between India and Pakistan are out of line. Those who claim that U.S. treatment of India and its rival Pakistan must be equivalent forget the not so slight distinction between liberal democracy and military dictatorship. Only seven years ago the junta led by Pervez Musharraf seized power in Pakistan in a coup d’état. Consider also that leading Pakistani engineer A.Q. Khan confessed to running a nuclear weapons racket with connections to potential “rogue states” Iran and North Korea. To top it all, Osama bin Laden and senior leaders...

Author: By Nikhil G. Mathews | Title: DISSENTING OPINION: Friends with Benefits | 3/8/2006 | See Source »

...healthy is possible just by doing laundry, bowling, or gardening, according to a new book by a Harvard Medical School researcher. Dr. Harvey B. Simon’s new book “The No Sweat Exercise Plan: Lose Weight, Get Healthy, and Live Longer” says that slight modifications to most people’s daily lives are enough for weight loss, disease prevention, and overall health. “For years, I believed that in order to benefit from exercise, you had to exercise aerobically,” said Simon, who is an associate professor of medicine...

Author: By Pamela T. Freed, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Staying Fit Is Painless Pursuit | 3/7/2006 | See Source »

...giving serious thought to the issues that will directly affect their academic experience at Harvard. The College should work to encourage this ongoing discussion, and it should continue throughout the spring semester through broad discussions. But the dialogue must focus on evaluating the current proposals and suggesting only slight modifications to them, not on brainstorming new ones—the curricular review has already been formulated, and now the Faculty and College community must debate the individual proposals as they are written.The overarching purpose of the curricular review is to benefit undergraduates, and immediate passage of the centerpieces...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: Ahead with the Review | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

...rocking chair as a disembodied voice recited a repeating and vaguely sing-songish description of the action of coming upstairs, sitting in a rocking chair, and looking out the window. At each pause, the woman said “More” and the sequence was repeated with slight variations and increasingly sinister shades to the voice’s story, leading to an eerie payoff and possibly the best two-word encapsulation of the four plays: “Fuck life.” While the plays were discomfiting, they were all interesting, even when it was hard...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dark Plays Find Light in Actors | 3/6/2006 | See Source »

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