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...like Dan, and he gets his just deserts. Soon enough, Dan gets lost in the moral mire of this world. Some exploited construction workers enlist him to take on their employer, a shady real estate tycoon who blunts the offensive by offering Dan a free apartment. Dan has an affair with a fresh-from-the-countryside "masseuse" and resolves to right a dreadful wrong she has suffered. But Dan is torn between his thirst for justice and his lust for sex and sea snails. By the time he stirs himself into action, it's difficult to tell whether...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hungry For More | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

...take it into the next meet.” Also coming up big for Harvard were the Jones twins, sophomores Bill and Dan. Bill took first in the 200-yard freestyle and Dan won the 200-yard butterfly. The two then turned the 100-yard butterfly into a family affair, with Bill coming in first at 50.03 and Dan finishing right behind him, trailing by only six hundredths of a second. “It was pretty incredible to see,” Degnan-Rojeski said. “They were both very good.” Degnan-Rojeski...

Author: By Loren Amor, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Harvard Begins Season on Right Note With Victory | 11/5/2006 | See Source »

Sprague joked yesterday morning at the pretrial conference’s opening, saying “So, this is the Nicholas Crowne affair...

Author: By Matthew S. Blumenthal, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEWS IN BRIEF: Student Charged With Domestic Assault Of An Ex-Girlfriend Appears in Court; Next Court Date in Dec. | 10/31/2006 | See Source »

Only a golden boy like Beatty would have had the clout and cojones to make a 3-hr. romance about U.S. communist John Reed and his love affair with both Bolshevism and feminist Louise Bryant (Diane Keaton). Beatty set out to make a great movie and came damn close, finding epic heft in Reed's trek from Greenwich Village to Red Square. On its 25th anniversary, the film looks even better. Jack Nicholson is a sexy standout as Louise's lover Eugene O'Neill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 7 Top Political Movies From Seven Decades | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

While the decisions by the MBTA and MTA were not made in coordination, both of them are destined to upset the motorist-T-passenger balance for the worse. The state of travel in Massachusetts is an increasingly sad affair, and if poor choices like these continue to abound, public faith in the MBTA and MTA will erode even further...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: Toll Road to Nowhere | 10/26/2006 | See Source »

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