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...royal playfulness. To this end, they engage the astonishingly beautiful Martine (Saffron Burrows) to recruit the crime team - a bunch of small time crooks (led by the excellent Jason Statham, who is on his way to broody stardom) from her old lower class neighborhood. This is the film's central irony: in a sense they are its innocents, working stiffs who are unaware - until very late in the film - that they are being used by the guys with the posh accents and bespoke tailoring to do their dirty work for them...
...avoid. In determining its institutional priorities, the Harvard community should view athletics in the way it views Greek life. In the case of fraternities and sororities, for instance, there is no problem that they exist at Harvard, but we wouldn’t want to make Greek life a central culture of the University...
...need to deal with this global—and lasting—issue as a community. Surveys and comment cards are not enough to improve students’ relatoinship with HUDS, and the HUDS Student Advisory Committee, while a step in the right direction, needs to play a more central and visible role in the dialogue between chefs, dining services management, and the student body. Only a committee that truly bridges the different bodies can make changes to satisfy everyone.—Columnist Rebecca A. Cooper can be reached at cooper3@fas.harvard.edu...
...action before cutting to the next character. This rapid movement gives the novel the speed that drives it to its finish, despite its redundancies. However, the structure is marred by several characters who are introduced but whose paths through the book never really resolve or interact with the central motion of the plot in any meaningful way. Though a great deal of effort is made to construct the character of Bing Beiderbixxe, comic book artist and nerd extraordinaire, he’s never able to take shape as a character in himself or to contribute meaningfully to the story...
...because of this people aren’t as aware of the sculptures.” Moreover, the medium itself does not limit the bounds of Harvard Yard’s art collection. Murals painted by John Singer Sargent adorn the walls of Widener Library’s central stairs. In an effort to commemorate Harvard students who fought and died in World War I, the University commissioned Sargent to create these two large paintings in the fall of 1920. Completed in 1922, these murals, coupled with Memorial Church across the New Yard, form the most elaborate World...