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...success is measured only in how much your movie needs you, Cera has reached the peak of his career to date with Year One, a comedy set in biblical times. By playing once again the sweet, stammering smart guy, although this time in a Spinal Tap wig and caveman furs, Cera can't stop Year One from being a bad movie, but he does save it from being a catastrophe. He plays Oh, an inept gatherer who is best friends with an even more inept hunter named Zed (Jack Black). They're kicked out of their village - the wisest...
...Torrential rain wiped out the grand opening of this year's U.S. Open on Thursday, and the USGA will be poorer for it. Although 42,500 tickets were already sold for the first day of play, many stayed away because of weather, and those that showed up weren't milling about buying hamburgers. "It stinks," says Bevacqua. "We lose the revenue from food and merchandising, and it costs us more money to restore the golf course. Bad weather takes its toll on us." Merchandising and food make up about 30% of the USGA's revenues from the Open, and when...
...participation," she said. "We thought it'd maximize it to have a more flexible approach, since schools handle their own aid budgets. Ultimately the decision came down to what deans felt they could do."Day also noted that different schools at the University have widely varying aid policies, although all have a commitment to providing need-based aid. The College uses grant aid to meet the full demonstrated financial need of each student, Ph.D. students are often able to cover expenses through a combination of outside fellowships and University grants, and Harvard Business School uses a combination of need-based...
...user fees for facilities. All researchers who use the center are charged a fee, according to Murray, but only researchers from outside companies pay “the real cost.” CNS currently subsidizes professors—both from Harvard and other universities. But Murray stressed that although they would be looking seriously into raising the user fee for professors, they do not wish to “disrupt” faculty research. Not everything is doom and gloom at the nanoscale level, professors said. CNS is set to upgrade its equipment soon, and Westervelt said that...
...Although such actions, even if successful, would play no direct part in ridding North Korea of its nuclear arsenal, they could play an indirect role. The weapons trade "has been a main source of revenue for the North for quite some time," Morrell said. Choking it off, he said, would reduce funding for Pyongyang's nuclear program as well as halt the proliferation of arms to other countries and terrorists, "where it could pose a threat to us and our allies...