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...with 36 replies as of two weeks ago—the thread has since been taken offline—the electronic war of words on “how not to be an asshole” was one of the more popular discussions...
...director Christopher A. Kukstis ’05 (who also makes a brief appearance at the beginning as a cranky farmer, and is a Crimson editor) juggles the antics well, allowing the characters to go off on tangents and rants but never letting us lose sight of the main thread of the plot. The tangents are usually more entertaining than the actual storyline, as is often the case in broad comedy. Tranio’s scheming is entertaining, but it is more amusing when he starts going on and on about how clever he is, or alternately how utterly screwed...
Every mom has a story that could support the notion that child rearing turns a woman's mind into mush: putting milk in the pantry and cereal in the fridge, losing the thread of a conversation in midsentence, misplacing the car keys for the 10th time. So widespread is the belief that babies make women brainless that when a satirical website released a fake study showing parents lost IQ points when their first child was born, MSNBC picked it up. But Katherine Ellison, a Pulitzer-prizewinning reporter and mother of two, doesn't believe in the dumbed-down...
...operation involves advanced microsurgical techniques, the joining of arterial walls with thread finer than a human hair, and exquisitely delicate maneuvers by the surgeons. Nonetheless, hundreds of doctors have mastered its intricacies, and the operation has been performed on thousands of patients around the world. There is just one problem: for most patients, it does not seem to help...
Sales of organic pillows and mattresses topped $1 million in 2004 and are expected to grow nearly 15% annually, according to the Organic Trade Association. Gaiam's sheets, below ($30 for twin; $60 for king), come in spring colors and boast a 205-thread count...