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...down processed pastry and watching similarly packaged English-language videos by Kelly Rowland and Nelly Furtado on the lobby’s television. C’est affreux, n’est-ce pas?Hours later, I was asking a French friend about Justice, and I got a blank stare. Hadn’t heard of them. “Oops!... I Did It Again,” he opined, was the apotheosis of pop music. It was depressing. I wanted buzzy synths, enormous sunglasses, robot DJs—I wanted French music. I had expected to find Paris dauntingly...
...Don’t be surprised when you get a confused stare. What else do you expect when your hovercraft is full of eels...
...basic principles and methods of economics. With almost four times the number of freshmen enrolled than upperclassmen, “Ec 10” also serves as a gigantic mixer for the incoming class of future i-bankers. Time for networking! Overall: 4 High point: Class in Sanders Theatre (stare at the amazing architecture while you zone out—yes, that’s the only high point) ENGLISH 193: AN INTRODUCTION TO 20TH CENTURY LITERARY THEORY Course Description: This course examines New Criticism, phenomenological criticism, psychoanalytical criticism, semiology, the Frankfurt school, blah blah blah blah. You won?...
...average person who Fred Kavli is, and you'll probably draw a blank stare. Pose the same question to the scientific community, however, and you're likely to get an admiring smile. Since 2000, when the Norwegian-born engineer started a foundation that bears his name, the upstart philanthropist has funded work in several critical scientific areas and virtually created a new class system among research universities: those that can boast of having a Kavli Institute and those that wish they could...
...almost instinctive -- you see an adorable baby, and you start to coo, smile or make a face to elicit some kind of response. But even if you get a blank stare back, rest assured that the tyke is processing every change in the shape and rhythm of your mouth and face. Researchers, led by Whitney Weikum at the University of British Columbia, found that infants under 8 months old may rely on such visual cues to learn language, even using variations in facial expressions to distinguish one language from another...