Word: chicago
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...weekend but requires that they be in their host dorms at 11:30 p.m. At Brown, the administration schedules events all the way until 1 a.m., presumably in the hopes that after that hour, the exhausted pre-frosh will sleep rather than going out. Not so the University of Chicago, where former visitors report that many of the social activities offered at night centered around fraternity parties and heavy alcohol consumption...
Blavod began marketing in Chicago last October, then started working on California and the rest of the country in January. So far, Boston has apparently been left off the guest list. In England, a 70cl frosted bottle of the vodka is available...
Contrary to myth, blacks don't always carry the names of their family's last slaveholder: slaves could change hands numerous times without changing their surname, points out Tony Burroughs, who teaches genealogy at Chicago State University. In the case of biracial children born to slaves, it is often impossible to tell if the father was the slave owner, the overseer or a relative of the slave owner given liberties with the slave (see story, next page). Jewish researchers run into complications too: traditionally Jews did not have surnames; they were called, for instance, Isaac, son of Jacob. Only beginning...
...WACHOWSKI PAST FILM Bound CURRENT FILM The Matrix AGE DIFFERENCE: Larry, 33, is two years older FUN FAMILY FACT: Former carpenters, the brothers built their parents a house RECURRING MOTIFS: Intimidating women HOW CLOSE ARE THEY? "[Gina] Gershon [seen recently in Showgirls] learned that the brothers speak as one." --Chicago Sun Times
...deliver a futurismo fashion statement and a can of whup-ass in the same movie--this is smart filmmaking. Larry and Andy Wachowski, the Chicago-bred brothers who wrote and directed The Matrix, are smart in a way moviegoers love and Hollywood moguls cherish: the picture, shot in Australia for $63 million, had the year's strongest opening weekend and pulled in a robust $50.7 million in its first nine days. The film's producer, Joel Silver, says the boys have a sequel in mind, and cannily adds, "The more success the movie has, the more willing they...