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...rather wan-looking Rosamund Pike of “Pride & Prejudice”). He drinks and constantly has sex with whores of any persuasion. He has an ill-fated affair with an actress, Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton, who is both incredibly surly and has incredibly greasy hair), whose bitter betrayal prompts him to castigate King Charles the Second (John Malkovich, sporting a prosthetic nose) with a scathing play that implies that he (the king) is a dildo. This all leads, of course, to eventual ruin, loss of bladder control and hideous sores, (and then, predictably, weird masks and a steel...

Author: By Rebecca M. Harrington, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Libertine | 1/12/2006 | See Source »

During memorial services at the Church, about seven to 10 times a year, the names of the deceased are read. Campbell, often shivering in the cold, stands in the corner of the bell’s platform, shielded from the bitter wind by the white walls, with an earpiece to hear the names being called down in the church below and a watch in his hand. The second the names are finished, he must grab the red clapper in his hand and smash it into the side of the bell every 10 seconds for two minutes...

Author: By Shifra B. Mincer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: History, Habits Clash in Bells | 1/9/2006 | See Source »

...dodgy response at best, but one invested with a larger truth. For too many liberals, all secret intelligence activities are "fruit," and bitter fruit at that. The government is presumed guilty of illegal electronic eavesdropping until proven innocent. This sort of civil-liberties fetishism is a hangover from the Vietnam era, when the Nixon Administration wildly exceeded all bounds of legality-spying on antiwar protesters and civil rights leaders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Stay Out of Power | 1/8/2006 | See Source »

...game but did not play. She missed her eighth straight game with an injury to her hand, but should be healthy for the start of the Ivy League season on January 7. Friday’s game against Dartmouth at Lavietes Pavilion will feature a rematch of the bitter rivals, last year’s defending Ivy League co-champions. The victory over Colgate marks the end of the non-conference season for Harvard. The Crimson suffered from injuries and inexperience in finishing with an uncharacteristically ugly 4-9 record. “We played arguably one of the best...

Author: By Ted Kirby, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: W. Hoops trounces Colgate at home | 1/3/2006 | See Source »

...pollworkers needed for election day have been recruited but not trained. And even though there are new measures to reduce fraud, including transparent ballot boxes and a new system to count and transmit results, the process may be undermined by inadequate surveillance, logistical trouble and bitter local political rivalries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kidnapping an Election | 1/1/2006 | See Source »

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