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Like a bunch of super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...Holden Green to take a report of suspicious activity. The officers arrived and spoke with the reporting party who stated that after turning on their furnace they smelt cigarette smoke. The officers checked the basement and observed a sleeping bag, blankets, various clothing items, alcohol bottles, and a cardboard box that contained cigarette butts. HRES was notified and arrived on scene. The officers checked the basement doors and found them to be unsecured. HRES secured the doors and will return to clean the area...
...Tehran was outraged. Everywhere I went yesterday, the talk vibrated with indignation over the film 300 - a movie no one in Iran has seen but everyone seems to know about since it became a major box office surprise in the U.S. As I stood in line for a full hour to buy ajeel, a mixture of dried fruits and nuts traditional to the start of Persian new year festivities, I felt the entire queue, composed of housewives with pet dogs, teenagers, and clerks from a nearby ministry, shake with fury. I hadn't even heard of the film until that...
...pillaging, deranged savages. Since the entire country will be on two weeks of official holiday, there will be no shortage of time to sit about discussing the slight and what it portends for Iran's current confrontation with the United States. For a people prone to conspiracy logic, the box office success of 300, compared with the relative flop of Alexander (another spurious period epic dealing with Persians) is cause for considerable alarm, signaling ominous U.S. intentions...
...shot bouncing off the post. Harvard freshman midfielder Jason Duboe took advantage of the miss to punch in his own score, moving the Crimson within one.Harvard answered another UMass goal with only one second remaining in the half, as Stenmark rocketed a shot from the top of the box. The whistle blew with the Minutemen up, 6-5.UMass opened the second half with three goals in the first four minutes—Connolly scored the third after recovering from a fall—to expand its lead to 9-5, its cushion lead of the game.The Crimson managed to bounce back...