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...breakout season by coming out very strong in the second half. Led by freshmen Alex Gamboa and Edwin Draughan, Yale shot 61 percent in the second half and held Harvard scoreless for seven minutes. Gellert got into foul trouble and suddenly the 16-point lead evaporated into thin air. Once Yale took a 49-46 lead with eight minutes left, it had gained the momentum and did not give it back en route...
...living wage’s opposition began to erode the thin veneer of liberalism that shrouds Harvard’s deepest secret—its inner core of fiscal conservatism. Yes, students at the college are liberal, but only socially. But being liberal is more than supporting women’s equality or gay rights. To be truly liberal and progressive, you’d better be willing to toss aside more than just your parents’ stodgy views on race in America. You’ve got to toss aside corporate profits, individual wealth and, yes, rational minimum...
...past two years, Federman has served as the senior dean for alumni relations and clinical teaching, a post that stretches his time thin...
...girl (Natalie Portman's Padme Amidala), and a noble Jedi knight (Ewan McGregor as Obi-Wan Kenobi) meets a naughty one (Count Dooku, incarnated by Christopher Lee). Joseph Campbell might have got a kick out of the mythic reverberations, but for the rest of us the story is a thin clothesline on which to hang some terrific computerized beasties (the iguana hashslinger Dexter Jettster, the tall, graceful llama-lamas of planet Kamino) and fab set pieces (a treadmill struggle in the clone factory). Lucas guides these scenes with ingenious care. As for the actors, they're on their...
...intoxicating. But time and again, I’ve returned to their failings. Treatment of plus-sized models or the fix-it-quick life solutions come to mind. What a long and strange trip it’s been: from breasts to prairie dresses, the horoscope to stick-thin models, I’ve probably spent more time than one should thinking of ways to make light of my minor obsession with girly magazines. And now the seemingly contradictory yet actually quite similar problem of excluding one skin tone and trying to change another...