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...have to be unhappy about how you look, no matter how you look to begin with.” “You have to not feel good about yourself in order to be a good consumer,” Shames said. Becker, an anthropologist, found that the Fijian populace??where women were traditionally very comfortable with varying body images—was radically changed within three years by the introduction of television. (Fiji was one of the last places on Earth to receive television access.) The community began to obsess over dieting, and 11 percent of teenage...

Author: By Peter F. Zhu, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Race and Beauty | 4/29/2008 | See Source »

...like all dutifully atheistic Soviets, refuses to believe in the Dark Lord’s existence. With a supernatural and motley crew that includes a scantily clad witch-maid and an enormous, talking, sarcastic cat named Behemoth, Satan spreads chaos throughout the city, befuddling bureaucrats and toying with the populace??s deepest yearnings for consumer goods. Meanwhile, a character known only as the Master, condemned to live in a mental institution after writing a historical account of Jesus’s crucifixion—a book that becomes a meta-novel within the text—breaks...

Author: By Alexander B. Cohn, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov | 9/27/2007 | See Source »

...College has passed. Our Founding Fathers created the current system in order to protect the interests of small states and to preserve a much-desired federalism. They also shared a belief that designated state electors would be well-educated and engaged citizens, who would have more insight than the populace??many of whom were illiterate, uninformed, and days, if not weeks, away from Washington...

Author: By Nicholas J. Melvoin | Title: Failing College | 3/14/2007 | See Source »

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