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...President - who includes Springsteen's "I'm Fine" and Aretha Franklin's "Think" in his list of top 10 songs - was spotted tapping his feet and bopping his shoulders, with an enormous grin during Franklin's tribute to Bumbry, a "true diva." Michelle threw her head back to laugh, and clapped along, sharing occasional whispers with Springsteen, who was seated beside her. Vice President Joe Biden and his daughter Ashley congratulated the rocker for his award after the tribute; Springsteen then lingered further with DeNiro. (DeNiro's time would later be taken up by the White House's Chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At Kennedy Center Honors, Obama Salutes the Boss | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...contrast with Orwell, however, is that Lu Xun threw in his lot with the communists late in life. This meant that he became one of those rare Chinese writers from the pre-1949 era whose stories stayed in print and whose essays remained in textbooks. That special status has also meant that the work of virtually all current Chinese authors owes a debt of some kind to the stories in the Penguin collection. Jiang Rong readily admits, for example, that Wolf Totem was inspired in part by Lu Xun's writings. And though Zhu Wen denies this kind of link...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Orwell | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...wind that students threw feces down the stairs of Mather House’s B entryway, presumably making it smell worse than Lamont Library after live-in students stay there for more than a week before finals. And presumably making its floor sticker than the floor at [insert where you were Friday night...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather B Entryway Was Full of Crap (Literally) | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...Someone has left a trail of feces in B entryway staircase so do not touch the banister as you use it," he wrote. "Especially be careful on the first flr [sic] as it seems like someone threw it down from the top of the staircase...

Author: By Gautam S. Kumar, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mather B Entryway Was Full of Crap (Literally) | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

...freshman threw it ahead to Lin, who separated from the crowd and finished with a thunderous one-handed dunk...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Second-Half Spurt Leads to Win | 11/30/2009 | See Source »

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