Word: california
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...Matthau and Jack Lemmon '47 reprise their classic roles as messy Oscar Madison and natty Felix Ungar in the sequel to Simon's comedy classic, but the result is as flat as a Quarter Pounder without the cheese. The excuse for a plot, the erstwhile roommates' road trip through California en route to their children's wedding, can't support the lack of the genuine humor that characterized the original. And the stale performances make this movie about as palatable as New Coke. --Elizabeth A. Murphy...
Have you ever hated your name? Apparently some people have. A recently published study by researchers at the University of California in San Diego has suggested that people with "cooler" initials--such as ACE, JOY, WOW or GOD--might actually live longer than people with more negative ones, like BUM, UGH, ILL, PIG, ASS or DED. The study looked at five million California death certificates and singled out 3,487 men (whose names are less likely to change over a lifetime). The study included 2,287 men with decidedly negative monograms and 1,200 WINners and VIP-types...
...been flipping through facebooks searching for our blockmates' middle initials ever since we heard the news. And we wonder: How does this bode for Dean of Students Archie C. Epps III, or for Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles? Then again, everything's a little bit weirder in California...
...courts of law and public opinion, the opponents of affirmative action and diversity are winning a battle against these programs. Our nation's institutions of higher learning are being stripped bare of the diversity that makes the college experience so rich. Minority representation at the University of California at Berkeley fell from 23.1 percent in 1997 to 10.4 percent in 1998. The Los Angeles campus saw similar declines, despite having more minority applicants with strong academic credentials than in previous years...
...consequences will be deep, profound, terrible and long-lasting," Rudenstine said. We must all wake up, or we will return in 2023 to find Harvard a very barren place. Though Harvard's diversity system is not the same as the affirmative action system of the University of California, it can still be affected by a national change in policies...