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...panorama of malefactors includes a 13-year-old boy who is shot point-blank while wearing a bulletproof vest during an initiation rite that is like a Mafia bar mitzvah ("Now you are a man"); a middle-management toughie who, like Tony Soprano, is in the waste-disposal business (the Camorra holds a monopoly in this industry); and two punks who quote the Pacino Scarface and think they've hit the jackpot when they stumble on a weapons stash. ("Let's rack up corpses," one says. "No use feeling depressed.") Above these scarred, drugged-out creatures are their bosses, wealthy...
...fulfils the purpose of the Core Curriculum,” she told me. I started telling my friends to stop pining for awkward poets and start hanging out in the buildings we usually avoid. Which might or might not explain how I ended up at the Miracle of Science Bar & Grill. I was sitting across from a condensed matter theorist. Instead of gloves, he was wearing socks on his hands. I decided to ignore that. Our conversation was going okay. He didn’t compare me to a infinite-dimensional Hilbert space. It seemed almost normal. Then he grabbed...
...both spirit and form, using endearing but direct humor and exaggerated cases to prove the authors’ points. Gigi is meant to represent the universal female voice—constantly worrying, obsessing, overanalyzing, and most of all, making excuses for men. Alex is the suave manager of a bar, who coolly rejects girls on a regular basis but nevertheless decides to take Gigi under his wing. He becomes the voice of co-author Greg Behrendt, talking women down from their high strung obsessions and telling them the painful, but necessary, truth: “If a guy doesn?...
...American century. A commercial spot from the 1970s, with the motto “You’ve Got a Lot to Live, and Pepsi’s Got a Lot to Give,” for instance, showed clips of a young man pole-vaulting over a high bar, between rapid-fire shots of marquee lights, cabaret scenes and PYT’s playing the electric guitar. America will continue to reach new heights, said Pepsi, and you kids can have a rollicking time along the way.The climate into which the retooled brand has now entered, however, is markedly...
Adams House will bar non-residents from its dining hall Wednesday nights in an effort to reduce crowding and build community, the House announced last week. The Wednesday “community nights,” which begin today, come in response to dinner-time congestion that frequently plagues Adams. The dining hall—built to accommodate 220—consistently draws swarms of non-residents due to the House’s convenient location. “We’re in the eye of the storm,” said David A. Seley, the Adams dining hall...