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...white horse to solve this ever-pressing problem is the Undergraduate Council (UC), which, ever reluctant to leave constituents dissatisfied, recently doubled the value of its three weekly freshman party grants. While freshmen used to be allotted only $50 to plan a rager, they now have a cool $100. That’s a lot of chips and salsa. Unfortunately, it’s not much else. The UC’s actions are well intentioned, but will be ineffective, and the grant increase should live no longer than its approved three-week trial period. There’s just...
Gilbert Arenas, wonder guardof the Washington Wizards, goes by a superhero nickname, Agent Zero, as in the number on his uniform. Here's a more appropriate appellation: Agent Weirdo. Why? This is a guy who at halftime of one game took a shower--fully uniformed--to cool down. He tickles the underarm of a teammate before tip-off for good luck. His addictions are many and, Arenas admits, "pointless," including bad DVDs, vintage jerseys and his latest, crappy basketballs. Arenas is collecting the synthetic balls the NBA unveiled and dumped this season after players complained about cutting their fingers...
...Miami housing project when he was almost 4. His father, then living in Tampa, retrieved him. Three years later, Gilbert Sr. drove with his son cross-country to chase an acting career in Los Angeles. The Gilberts were out of money on arrival. "I'm thinking, that's not cool," Gilbert Sr. remembers. For three days, they slept in Dad's Mazda RX-7. Arenas Sr. soon found steady work, although he never struck it big as an actor...
...money-grubbing Hollywood studio machine as a result of the making of this film. THAT’S ZERO DOLLARS, BITCHES! YEAH! 8. Drink when Lawrence says, “But you’re gonna fucking drink the absinthe, man.” Brooklyn is sooo cool. —Richard S. Beck
...mention of the Bloomsbury Group—the 20th century British intellectual bohemians for whom this book is named). “American Bloomsbury” feels wedged between genres, stuck in limbo between educated reading and fluff. Cheever’s desire to make the Transcendentalists seem cool to a younger generation would have worked, except that she underestimated the intelligence of her intended audience. Anyone who might be interested in learning about these influential American authors—“the mothers and fathers of our literature,” as Cheever puts it—would...