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...sound like a new Judd Apatow movie (or an old Woody Allen one), but it's actually a commercial for beer - specifically Bud Light, made by the brewery that claims "the beer you choose says a lot about you." The ad never aired on TV, and careful viewers will note that all the sexual devices are blurred and the strong language bleeped. It was made to be consumed, as beer is, by people over the age of 21. But, like beer, it is readily available if you know where to look. And again like beer, it can make you laugh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Porn's for You: Budweiser's Racy Web Ad | 6/4/2009 | See Source »

...preserving the “historic mystique of a Harvard building” must be coupled with the more practical concerns gleaned from the CHL’s focus groups and surveys, in which students asked for basic improvements such as better lighting and heating, increased privacy, and greater sound-proofing...

Author: By Bita M. Assad and Ahmed N. Mabruk, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: House Life Faces Uncertainty | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

...those were reasonable things to do in normal or even mildly unusual circumstances.”John P. Huchra, former vice provost for research policy, cites bad luck as the source of Harvard’s current fiscal quagmire. “It was an aggressive but a reasonably sound plan,” Huchra says. “It would be hard to say that, at the time, what was being planned was the bad thing to do. To be honest, it’s hard to say now that what was being planned was a bad thing...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Once Ambitious, Harvard Revisits Allston Planning | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

Quotes By: "I've thought long and hard as to what I might say that would sound original at this moment. But honestly, I don't have an original thought in my mind - all I know is what I feel in my heart, and that is that I am enormously moved and deeply proud of this nomination." - Accepting the Secretary of the Army nomination from President Obama on June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John McHugh: Obama's Pick for Army Secretary | 6/3/2009 | See Source »

That was the bet President George W. Bush placed during his final months in office, when the CIA greatly increased drone sorties and strikes in Pakistan. The accelerated attacks have been stepped up under President Barack Obama. Nowadays, the low hum of the drones has become a familiar sound in Waziristan, where tribesmen call them machay, or red bees. Their lethal sting has been felt in villages and hamlets across the Federally Administered Tribal Area (FATA). The main objectives of the campaign: to take out al-Qaeda's top tier of leadership, including Osama bin Laden, and deny sanctuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The CIA's Silent War in Pakistan | 6/1/2009 | See Source »

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