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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...