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Disaster movies are our millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity. Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive...
...unfortunate enough to venture into the dingy recesses of our humble Malkin Athletic Center, the first thing you feel like doing is leaving. But if you are brave enough to stay and go down into the weight room, you spend half the time trying not to club the person next to you and the other half looking for the weights you need...
...millennial No plays, totally stylized, totally predictable, but comforting in their familiarity," says TIME's Richard Schickel. "Whether the threat to domestic tranquillity is a ferocious shark, invading spacemen or a rogue volcano (as in Dante's Peak), it reassures us that nice people, if they are smart, brave and quick on their feet, will somehow survive." Writer Leslie Bohem and director Roger Donaldson brush briskly through the standard scientific and romantic blather. They know that in movies like this, complexity is the province of the special-effects people. It?s the same with the actors. Cool Pierce Brosnan...
...player who grew up loving the fast-paced, ball-to-feet style of Brazilian samba soccer, the chance to play under Parreira is a dream come true. Kohler may just have found a niche in the brave new world of American soccer--come this summer, he'll have a very real chance to keep...
...think Gary Wu teaches us that there are certain cross cultural views of homophobia," said Tamara T.L. Chin '97, a BGLTSA member and the organizer of the speech. "We need to globalize our resources in solidarity with those brave souls who are resisting policed gender and sexuality under conditions much harsher than in the U.S. and in Europe...