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...weren't for the memory of how fresh and joyful their 1996 film Swingers was, the Jon Favreau-Vince Vaughn comedy Couples Retreat might seem like any other broad, dumb movie - the kind Ben Stiller churns out with alarming regularity - with a sizable budget; a gorgeous location; funny dudes; pretty, bikini-ready women; and plenty of sex jokes. Not great but not terrible. But this movie, which plays out like the fulfillment of the Swingers dudes' worst nightmares, is just sad. (See TIME's fall entertainment preview...
...dorms is a complex process which includes installing dual-flush toilets, motion sensor lighting, water-saving showerheads, and increased recycling. As Pacillo says, it’s an effort to do “basically whatever we can possibly do in the buildings.”Despite budget cuts this year, OFS is still aggressively pursuing green building. Gauthier conservatively estimates at least ten more plaques by the time the class of 2010 graduates; most of these certifications will result from renovations rather than new buildings.To help with meet this challenge, OFS has enlisted the help of students in each...
...tourists. The online Idea Bank, Harvard College and FAS’s newest brainchild, launched last week. In the words of Dean of the College Evelynn M. Hammonds, transmitted via e-mail to students across campus, the project aims “to creatively [resolve] Harvard’s budget deficit problems”— and it doesn’t disappoint this reliable mantra...
...National School Lunch Program, intended to prevent the return of Depression-era child malnourishment, allowed the government to buy surplus food from farmers and set minimum nutritional values for each meal. Its budget grew under Eisenhower and Nixon, but the Reagan Administration slashed it by nearly $1.5 billion - making up for the cuts by revising nutritional guidelines, reducing portion sizes and (infamously) attempting to categorize ketchup as a vegetable. (See nine kid foods to avoid...
...Medicaid-eligible low-income residents, steering them into less costly managed-care plans. Critics point out that premiums for these low-income residents have still risen dramatically since the program launched in the early 1990s, but Cantwell and Baucus say they have been assured informally by the Congressional Budget Office that if states chose to pool residents in this way, the Federal Government would save money. (Read "Baucus Open to Changes in Health-Care Bill...