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...Ghosts made a bit less in its opener than McConaughey's movies usually do, perhaps because the word was out early that it sucked swamp water, but also because another date movie had, in industry parlance, long legs. Namely, Beyoncé's. Her loving-wife-confronts-crazy-stalker-lady thriller Obsessed, last week's No. 1, finished a strong third with $12.2 million. The movie has now earned in 10 days what another musical star's solo effort, the Zac Efron 17 Again, grossed in 17; it took fourth place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Box Office Weekend: Hugh Is Huge | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...seem like an eternity [of waiting] for you guys,” Smith said. “But this organization is so big, and getting it to move fast takes a bit of effort...

Author: By Athena Y. Jiang and June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: Deans Answer Few Budget Questions | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...meter race in 6:10.7, while the Huskies came in at 6:21.2.“It was a pretty stiff headwind today,” said varsity eight stroke Simon Gawlik. “Coming off the line, Northeastern hung with us for a good bit, but we were able to get up on them and continuously increase our margin. It seemed like we handled the conditions a little bit better.”The convincing win, the 12th in a row over Northeastern in the varsity eight, gave Harvard the 21st Charlie Smith Cup and its sixth...

Author: By Dennis J. Zheng, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Crimson Sweeps Huskies On Charles | 5/3/2009 | See Source »

...Hernandez's story, and hundreds of others like her family's, indicate that the first-response apparatus of Mexico's public health system, if not the entire system, could stand a significant upgrade. Dr. Miguel Angel Lezana, director of the National Epidemiological Center, tried a bit of buck-passing this week, suggesting the response by the U.N.'s World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, "should have been more immediate" after Mexico informed WHO officials on April 16 of a possibly uncommon flu virus, one whose symptoms also include splitting headaches as well as the pneumonia-related problems. What Lezana seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living with Swine Flu: Mexico City Under the Cloud | 5/2/2009 | See Source »

...President Faust, who is such a huge supporter of the arts, came to watch along with many of the faculty,” Flynn says. “We had sold out shows and it felt like you got to be a rock star for a little bit. It was a crazy show to be a part of.” Flynn relishes performing in musical theater for its combination of the best of two worlds: singing and acting. At an early age, Flynn was influenced by the presence of music and theater in her household. Her father...

Author: By Brian A. Campos, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Rachel E. Flynn ’09 | 5/1/2009 | See Source »

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