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...What? Mark Wahlberg is doing a movie without George Clooney? What? Tim Burton is finally directing again? What? A _Planet of the Apes_ without kitsch? That's what the newly updated version of the 1968 science fiction classic is shaping up to be: a visceral, dynamic action movie that deviates so far from the original that it's almost unrecognizable. It's hard to imagine anyone besides Charlton Heston battling those "damned dirty apes," but Wahlberg fills his shoes well, and in a fitting, but rare touch, Heston appears in an ape cameo. As a US Air Force pilot, Wahlberg...
...meeting in New York in 1999, Ivy Council members engaged in only three hours of meetings on tangible issues of student life. Indeed, the most well-known idea generated by the Ivy Council was the failed Census 2000 of Fentrice D. Driskell ’01 and John A. Burton ’01, an endeavor known more for the information it didn’t collect than for what it did. With this latest mishap, the Ivy Council has proven to be not only incapable of living up to its goal of fostering productive dialogue between Ivy League schools...
Instead, Leiter says, the University retreated further and further into a dogmatic Quinian stance, solidified by the presence of Burton S. Dreben, a former dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, who advocated Quine's views...
...domination. Some of the elements in his towering, Gothic seaside castle reflect a vibrant visual imagination, most notably a sprawling floor that proves to be composed of giant jigsaw puzzle pieces. Others, such as the robot minions whose limbs consist of nothing but thumbs, smack of watered-down Tim Burton...
...MAIL TRAIL? (2/08/01): The House Government Reform Committee, headed by Dan Burton, launches hearings into Clinton's last-minute pardons...