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...though--in a moment of pretentiousness that he precedes with two minutes of apology--he says he has started to consider himself an artist, he seems like a pretty commercial one. Most of his movie ideas are action films, and his band plays the kind of pleasant, fake-disaffected pop that might appear on an episode of The O.C. "I wish I came from a more pure place," he says. "I don't have something to say from the bottom of my soul. I just know how to take stuff I like and repackage it in a slightly different...
...with two outs in the eighth, Harvard got something going. Stoeckel singled off the second baseman’s glove. Byrne then fought over several two strike pitches before grounding a single up the middle. That brought up Vance representing the tying run, but the center fielder could only pop to second on a full count. In the ninth, Wilson led off with a single to right, but Ratliff struck out the next three hitters to end the Crimson’s four-game winning streak. —Staff writer Ted Kirby can be reached at tjkirby@fas.harvard.edu...
...there's really a hunger for such adult dialogue, does it really have to be accompanied by childish crudeness? Actually, don't answer that. In any case, the media figures and politicians who clown around with Imus can pretend that the show is really about informed conversation or pop sociology or anything except junior-high-level teasing, but its true appeal for them lies in the seal of approval Imus bestows...
...another's cultural signifiers. In a now classic episode of Chappelle's Show, comic Dave Chappelle plays a blind, black white supremacist who inadvertently calls a carload of rap-listening white boys "niggers." The kids' reaction: "Did he just call us niggers? Awesome!" The country is, at least, more pop-culturally integrated - one nation under Jessica Alba, J. Lo and Harold & Kumar - and with that comes greater comfort in talking about differences...
...Freeze never had the chance to vie for doorbox space with Harvard’s other publications. Suffering from insufficient funds, the organization was unable to doordrop its winter 2005 magazine, which was instead sold in the Harvard Coop at $2.95 a pop. And this was not only Freeze’s debut issue—it was the single issue the organization has been able to produce to date...