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...keen notice of the recent breakthrough of The Blind Side, an inspirational that in two months has earned around $230 million at the domestic box office on a paltry $29 million budget. It's the story of NFL rookie Michael Oher and the wealthy white woman who eight years ago saved the young Michael from a forlorn life on the streets, adopted him and encouraged him to play football. A canny mix of violent sports (for the guys in the audience) and do-gooder heart (for the women), The Blind Side won Sandra Bullock a Golden Globe...
...past 36 years its greatest practitioner was Robert B. Parker, who died on Jan. 18 at 77. In the genre's lineage of hard-boiled icons, the baton passed from Dashiell Hammett to Raymond Chandler to Ross Macdonald and finally to Parker, whose mononymous detective, Spenser, long ago entered the pantheon inhabited by Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe and Lew Archer. Although Parker's body of work included books featuring other protagonists, it is Spenser who will endure and whose adventures will be read in the next century...
...emails in my inbox? I just checked it three hours ago.” Such cries ring throughout Harvard. Every Harvard student knows the feeling of opening their email in hopes of finding new Facebook updates or news from friends, only to find 30 emails inviting them to attend different student group events...
...popped out,” Lions coach Joe Jones said. “It’s the shoulder he got surgery on two summers ago...I can’t see him trying to play with that...
...think the last time Colin played him, he beat him, but we all know that Baset is much more polished then he was three months ago,” Harvard coach Satinder Bajwa said prior to the contest...