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Anderson’s deadpan artistry helps this tale of literate, elitest characters make their way through their upper-class milieu. Recalling Rushmore’s opening yearbook sequence, Anderson starts the film off with an expanded, hilarious prologue introducing the young geniuses and documenting their rise to fame and the insane treatment they were afforded by their father. The look of the pages at each chapter title gives the feel of a highly stylized story, a fantastic aspect that is further accentuated by Alec Baldwin’s tart narration as he guides viewers chapter by chapter through...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: American Royalty | 12/7/2001 | See Source »

...round of tax rebate checks for lower-income workers, along with some faster tax-write-off rules for businesses investing in capital equipment. And whatever compromise emerges from a still-vicious fight between the Hasterts and the Daschles over health care subsidies and whether to accelerate various middle- and upper-class marginal-rate tax cuts in Bush's $1.3 trillion baby of last spring. Republicans say that's where the stimulus is; Democrats say they're welfare for the rich and a budget-buster besides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's the Stimulus Package, Stupid | 12/5/2001 | See Source »

Unfortunately, those poor sleeping Losers are often upper-class students, too old to be helped. They have somehow derived from experience that sleep is for beds and academia for the conscious, and now they are firmly set in their ways, a poor example for overzealous, sleep-deprived first-years...

Author: By Arianne R. Cohen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: To Drool, Or Not to Drool | 12/4/2001 | See Source »

...Upper-class students did not receive the e-mail advisory...

Author: By Alex B. Ginsberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: First-Years Warned of Laced Marijuana | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

...failure. Bishay speaks fondly of her prefects, who have taken her entry everywhere from their dorm rooms to the North End. She feels that their non-resident status doesn’t strongly impede on their mentoring capacity. “It’s not like the upper-class Houses are that far to walk to, and I know that my prefects would make me feel welcome,” she says...

Author: By William L. Adams and Ishani Ganguli, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: The Proctor Gamble | 11/29/2001 | See Source »

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