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...Merchant takes pains to prove that she’s not just someone’s mom, as the stolid drum sample on “Saint Judas” shows. Despite the gimmick, “Judas” is the best update of Merchant’s mellow alterna-country sound. With vocals that prove that the teen-queens don’t have the monopoly on kick-ass voices, “Judas” has a sly swagger, though Merchant eschews sex appeal almost entirely on the album...

Author: By Thomas J. Clarke, James Crawford, Thalia S. Field, Andrew R. Iliff, P. PATTY Li, Michael T. Packard, Matthew F. Quirk, and Marcus L. Wang, CRIMSON STAFFS | Title: GimmeGimmeGimme | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...original British version)--is a movie, true Hogwartsians will return to the source and compare written and visual texts with the care of a New Critical scholar. They will find that the book was better--richer in mood, in thrilling melodrama, in joy--than director Chris Columbus' meticulous, stolid film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Harry Potter: Wizardry Without Magic | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Harvard always seems to jump at the opportunity to substantiate and bolster its reputation as a top academic institution. This was the University’s opportunity to demonstrate its dynamism—to show that there is a heart beating behind the stolid white capitals of its facades. Alas, I guess the University and New York City have something in common...

Author: By Justin D. Gest, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Why Business as Usual? | 9/14/2001 | See Source »

...What we?ve got is a manufacturing recession, a profits recession, an earnings recession and a capital-investment recession, and probably a few others. But thanks to the stolid materialism of the U.S. consumer, who accounts for two-thirds of U.S. economic activity, the U.S. on the whole can still call this thing a slowdown, or as Alan Greenspan likes to call it, "a period of sub-par growth." Both of which are much nicer terms - and both of which are likely be the terms du jour well into 2002. And that?s if the consumers keep bailing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Markets: Another One-Day Summer Rally | 7/31/2001 | See Source »

...there any worlds left to conquer for this stolid star? Apparently one: France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jet-ting to Paris? Oui! | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

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