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...Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) education. A Crimson editorial, written two years ago by Andrew L. Kreicher ’06, denounced VES as “a concentration so unnecessary, ridiculous, and over-dramatized that it’s hard to mention it anymore without a snicker on your face...VES should be an area of elective classes or a citation program, but not a concentration awarding the same diplomas as other majors.” But despite such contemptuous attitudes towards the department, the content of VES courses and the skills that VES students develop may well prepare...

Author: By Andres A. Arguello and Denise J. Xu, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: LIFE AFTER VES | 11/9/2007 | See Source »

Other scholars will no doubt snicker at Greer's theories - particularly her final assertion that Anne financed the posthumous publishing of Shakespeare's "First Folio," which included 36 plays, 18 of which had not been published before, like The Tempest and Macbeth. But Greer's conjecture, founded on careful research, probably contains more truth than the commonly accepted prejudice does. The poet of marriage may very well have understood what his wife endured, and her devotion to him: "In his plays women are shown time and time again to be constant in love through months and years of separation," Greer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rethinking Anne Hathaway | 8/29/2007 | See Source »

...needle out and you're strapped to the gurney unable to do anything but watch your life drip away. It's that kind of movie: enervating, draining, sucking. Though the movie has some laughable lines, it's so wan you will not be roused to so much as a snicker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Ho-hum Hannibal | 2/10/2007 | See Source »

...elections, when Capitol Hill was aswarm with triumphant Democrats. He spent two weeks abroad, separated by a brief Thanksgiving interlude at Camp David. Air Force One, the Boeing 747 that has its own medical facility, among other amenities, circled the globe twice, serving Swiss burgers and taco salad, with snicker-doodles for dessert. On the ground in Amman, the White House staff did grapple with local dishes like chicken frekah and homemade knafeh. The President and First Lady Laura Bush watched a replay of the Michigan--Ohio State game onboard during a 36-hour day that saw the couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What I Did On My Travels | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

...huge amount of support from people who were fans of freethinking. You would think over the years that people would come up to me and stick a finger in my chest. But people who don't like you almost never come up to you. They might stare or snicker to their wives. Maybe they think I'm a tough guy. I am five-eight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Bill Maher | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

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