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...Angeles, where a zombie Charlie Chaplin can be seen outside Mann's Chinese Theater, and crashes the seemingly unoccupied mansion of Bill Murray. Catastrophe: no Twinkies. "See," Wichita tells Tallahassee, "I told you we should have gone to Russell Crowe's." Murray does materialize - playing a solitary star like Adam Sandler's Funny People character, but in a gentler reading - in a cameo that's wonderfully written and played and boasts one of the funniest exit lines in zombie-movie history. (See the top 25 horror movies of all time...
Theoretical physicist Adam F. Falk, who received his doctoral degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences in 1991, has been named the 17th President of Williams College, making him only the second scientist to head the school in its 216-year history, according to one member of the presidential search committee...
...Revolution, when probably it was useful to have a picture of humans as competitive and to base the capitalist system on that image. And in doing so, a lot of political ideologues and economists started to forget that we are also a highly social species. The founder of economics, Adam Smith - to his credit - did realize that if you build a system completely on competitive principles it would not work very well...
...Animals… will be swept away by the Waterless Flood, which will be carried on the wings of God’s dark Angles that fly by night, and in airplanes and helicopters and bullet trains, and on transport trucks and other such conveyances,” says Adam One, their leader, in one of his sermons. The fringe Gardeners are more conscientious than the residents of the “Exfernal World” around them: Much of the action of the novel takes place on their rooftop plots, where they prepare “Ararats?...
...cast, it’s simultaneously a simple, bountiful musical buffet and a complicated structural feat. The show, Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club’s first production of the semester, amounts to much more than the gaudy, corporate-mandated greatest hits parade it could have devolved into. Cast member Adam M. Lathram ’10 notes Sondheim’s creative control in praising the show’s structure: “What’s interesting is that the songs are all very different, unique, and identifiable, but somehow [Sondheim] managed to weave a story from them...