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...space of a two-and-a-half minute trailer for his 2006 film “Night in the Museum,” actor Ben Stiller contends with an agitated T-Rex skeleton, a belching sea beast, a flaming projectile launched from a diorama catapult, and a horde of rampaging Huns...
Hadfield’s second-place finish last night echoed his previous UC defeat. Last year, Hadfield and then-presidential contender Magnus D. Grimeland ’07, snagged a surprise second-place finish, but the momentum was not enough to catapult him to victory in this election...
...offense that Delaney-Smith last year called “incredibly predictable.” This season, Harvard features a deadly blend of quick guards and several strong post players who like the physical contact of the low block. And if the team can stay healthy, this combination should catapult the Crimson from fourth to first in the league. Leading the charge will be sophomore point guard Emily Tay. With her knack for getting into the lane and delivering jaw-dropping passes—even teammates had a hard time anticipating her feeds inside last year—Tay appears...
...over yet. Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus agreed last month to an $8 billion takeover bid by Tata Steel. The deal is the largest-ever Indian acquisition of a foreign firm, and it will catapult Tata from the world's 56th largest steel producer to the fifth. "All credit goes to Ratan Tata," says Sanjay Bhandarkar, managing director of the N.M. Rothschild private bank in India. "He clearly has a vision and knows what he's doing...
...counterstatement and rakes in more free publicity. After a recent Kazakh advertising supplement in The New York Times designed to show the world how modern and business-friendly the nation really is, Borat responded with a statement blaming the campaign on neighboring Uzbekistan, and threatening a “catapult war” if it did not stop. Luckily for Fox, and unlike “Da Vinci,” Cohen’s film is worth the three-ring press circus; it’s one of the funniest and most savage investigations of American culture to ever...