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Like applying makeup to a corpse, the recent reforms to Harvard’s advising system have done little but cast a false complexion of vitality onto a system that should have been buried long ago. And now, with the recent Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) announcement of a revised advising program to provide academic counseling for first-semester sophomores—concentration choice does not have to be made until then, thanks to the curricular review—the burden of advising undecided sophomores has been foisted on already-overworked House resident tutors...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Re-Focus Advising | 3/2/2007 | See Source »

...whole affair represents something sordid about our obsession with on-screen perfection. We have moved from adult admiration of Marilyn Monroe’s alabaster complexion to perfectly crafted and precociously sexualized children. I don’t like to think where Hollywood will take us next...

Author: By Sarah C. Mcketta | Title: The Half-Naked Prince | 2/13/2007 | See Source »

...doesn't need to. She can do it all with her face. Her full cream complexion and even fuller lips make her a natural for two things: period movies and close-ups. Winslet is capable of setting up a scene--her character, the relationship with the person she's talking to and probably even a key plot point--without saying a word. "Every director, if you look at her movies, uses her a lot in close-ups," says Meyers. "You see everything on her face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kate in The Raw | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...seconds, the whole complexion of the season changed. And a normally unflappable veteran—a starter in his freshman year—suddenly went from defensive stopper to goat...

Author: By Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: THE GAME '06: Hooked on a Feeling | 11/17/2006 | See Source »

...doesn’t mean you won’t like him. The album’s first two singles, “I Wanna Love You” and “Smack That,” are certified hits. But hearing these songs in context changes their complexion; the atmosphere of “Konvicted” is de-pressed, passive, maybe even a little despairing. Whether it’s intentional or not, Akon—who’s been providing hooks for big-name rappers with a Nate Dogg-like frequency—sounds like...

Author: By Richard S. Beck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Akon, "Konvicted" | 11/16/2006 | See Source »

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