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What It Says: We want you, you want us. When upperclassmen ask you which box you're going to check on the response form, tell them you’ve accepted and will be a student in the fall. No one wants to hear you rattle off the Ivies you’re debating over, so humor us. It will make us happy, and we won't know if you’re lying anyway...
...Potter and the Half-Blood Prince to the Fox Star Studio-distributed Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs. Even Baz Luhrmann's romantic epic Australia, which tanked pretty much everywhere else in the world, made $2 million on the subcontinent - enough to qualify as a decent run. The Indian box-office numbers are not impressive by U.S. standards, as tickets rates in India are a mere $1.8 compared to $8 in the U.S.; to gross $20 million, a film has to sell 12 million tickets in India, compared to 2.5 million tickets in the U.S. "Our success was a combination...
...others, India's movie-mad audiences are a vital growth market. Domestic box-office revenues are expected to grow from their $2.5 billion today to over $4 billion in 2012, according to a 2009 entertainment-industry report by the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry and the accounting and consulting firm KPMG. In the past, American studios operating from the Bollywood capital of Mumbai were limited by relatively few outlets; in 2005, there were only 13,000 single-screen cinemas in a country with 1.2 billion people. But India's real estate boom and 9% economic growth rate...
Yale came on strong at the end of the power play, pulling Malcolm from the net to gain a 6-on-4 advantage on a delayed penalty. And just a second after Greiner came out of the box, Little poked the puck past Carroll to bring the Bulldogs within...
...finally, if all this hasn’t been bad enough for Yale, the fine art auctioneer Christie’s is apparently selling a human skull that the Skull and Bones Society once used as a ballot box. Now there’s an artifact we wouldn't want...