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Time is distorted throughout the video in a vain attempt to imbue lame visuals with significance. An awkward couple hooks up on a couch and a droplet of water falls from a faucet first forward and then backward. This convoluted series of events is intended to signify the singer’s retrospection, but instead just comes off as confusing...

Author: By Francesca T. Gilberti, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The Fray | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

From that point, Albany kept chipping at the lead, tying the score on four different occasions before a pair of free throws from guard Jamar Wilson put Albany up 76-74 with 1:38 to play. After freshman point guard Drew Housman missed a jumper in a vain attempt to draw a foul, Wilson put the dagger into the Crimson, showing why he is the defending America East Player of the Year...

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Albany Beats Crimson in Crunch-Time Comeback | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...book is magnificent for its graceful, waltzing prose, its palimpsestic plot, and its egotistic but endearingly pathetic characters. And for affluent Ivy-League sophisticates, Messud’s novel can be a masochistic joy, holding the mirror up to our sometimes vain, vapid, inchoately ambitious selves...

Author: By David L. Golding, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Frivolous Lives, Interrupted | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

...progress. Still, changing tracks is less impressive when you have nowhere new to go—Stefani has lost some of her fresh zaniness without gaining any maturity. Let’s hope that by her next album, she has enough new ideas to do something besides try in vain to recreate the spark of “Lamb.Angel.Music.Baby...

Author: By Natalia I. Irizarry-cole, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Gwen Stefani, "The Sweet Escape" | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...East Coast referees and awareness of the recent rule changes might have made the difference. Over the course of the two games, Duluth was whistled for 23 infractions, while the Crimson went to the box only 11 times. And its edge in man-advantage time was not in vain, either, as Harvard cashed in five power-play scores combined over Friday and Saturday. “I think everyone’s adjusting to the new officiating requirements,” Cahow said. “With both these teams, all the players are so fast and so strong, you?...

Author: By Jonathan Lehman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NOTEBOOK: Chu Limps Off Ice, Later Returns to Bench With Wrapped Ankle | 12/3/2006 | See Source »

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