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...come to the rescue. Rock stars are designed to be shiny, shallow creatures, furloughed from reality for all time. Billionaires are even more removed, nestled atop fantastic wealth where they never again have to place their own calls or defrost dinner or fly commercial. So Bono spends several thousand dollars at a restaurant for a nice Pinot Noir, and Bill Gates, the great predator of the Internet age, has a trampoline room in his $100 million house. It makes you think that if these guys can decide to make it their mission to save the world, partner with people they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Good Samaritans | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...where celebrities come in, because there is no phenomenon more arbitrary than celebrity. They are attention filters, the human equivalent of throwing a dart at a map. A pretty face and a famous name are a convenient excuse to focus on one problem in the midst of a thousand equally unignorable others. To give to Tibet and not Africa may seem callous. But to pick Richard Gere over Bono--that's just show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Year of Charitainment | 12/19/2005 | See Source »

...Mariachi singer clears his throat. Beck settles back, to await the crying of lot 49. Bastardized Pynchon, this video is—The end is near, there are forty thousand secrets, and wouldn’t you know it? It turns out the Lord speaks some guttermouthed L.A. Spanglish dialect...

Author: By Elisabeth J. Bloomberg, Ben B. Chung, Bernard L. Parham, Will B. Payne, and Abe J. Riesman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Pop Screen Sleepers 2005 | 12/15/2005 | See Source »

...Have you heard of Mass. Hall? FM found records pointing to its existence in GovDocs. Apparently, knocking on the door three times and clicking your heels to the tune of “Ten Thousand Men of Harvard” would get you into Sexual Paradise...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Majorly Secretive Secrets Revealed | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

...concept, the merits of the Harvard non-meritocracy, the enzymes involved in the digestion of gluten, the wearing of dangly earrings, the psychosomatic benefits of drinking Diet Coke. She’ll listen, she’ll smile, and she’ll tell you a thousand insightful reasons why you’re wrong. She’s also the most talented structural editor on staff. (You don’t know what it is, but you read the benefits...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, Annie M. Lowrey, and Jannie S. Tsuei, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: War-Torn Warriors | 12/14/2005 | See Source »

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