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...pussyfooted, perhaps even slunk. I have hit the street, pounded the pavement, worn out shoe leather, taken Shanks's pony, hotfooted it, legged it, strode out, loped, paced. So far I have never waddled ... I may well have promenaded, pedestrianized, peregrinated, ambulated, perambulated, circumambulated, hoofed, and locomoted ... I'm sure I've strutted, but I'm pretty damn sure that I've never swaggered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A History of Walking | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...Jonsin, Sean Garrett, and Wayne Wilkins, “Sasha Fierce” is a compilation of back-to-back hits, all of which are worthy of radio play. With lines like “I be on the hotline, like err’day / Makin’ sure the DJ know what I want him to play,” Knowles drops the gimmicky metaphors of the first disc and gives us what we want: infectious hooks to bump on our stereos. Beyoncé or Sasha (or whatever you want to call her) takes a page from Rihanna?...

Author: By Evan Kendall, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Beyoncé | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...responsible for receiving training from and coordinating activities with corresponding College-wide liaison offices but have not done so effectively in the past. In some cases, these liaison offices are unaware of who the specialty tutors in each of the houses are. “We need to make sure that we have minimum standards so that students are getting the support that they need,” said Benjamin P. Schwartz ’10, vice-chair of the student activities committee, who sits on the CHL. But Nelson said that House masters, not liaison offices, should have precedence...

Author: By Abby D. Phillip, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: CHL Mulls Role of Specialty Advisors | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...completely honest,” Raasch says, “I’m not entirely sure what I want, but I just want to make sure that everything has an opportunity to be published that is produced at Harvard, especially since this medium would allow us to publish things in a way that they wouldn’t normally be presented within The Advocate magazine...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard in the Time of New Media | 11/21/2008 | See Source »

...Nearby, a man repairs a machine that shreds plastic bottles into nickel-size shards. Like most residents of the village, he migrated here from the countryside in the early '90s. "We came to work, because it's better than Henan," he says. Now he isn't so sure, but he knows that things won't be any better if he returns. The machine, now fixed, roars to life. "What to do?" he wonders with a shrug as he begins feeding old bottles into the machine. Back to work, that's his answer. The scrappers of Dongxiaokou can only hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In China, Hard Times at the Scrap Heap | 11/20/2008 | See Source »

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