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Makes sense, since big numbers are what Harvard’s all about: Kaavya Viswanathan ’08 will see the publication of her debut novel, “How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life” on April 1. Movie rights have been sold to DreamWorks, making the $500,000 advance Viswanathan got for the book sound like little knuckles... Speaking of which, the new issue of The Harvard Lampoon, edited by Farley T. Katz ’06 and former Lampoon president Simon H. Rich...
Duck Season Directed by Fernando Eimbcke Warner Independent Pictures 4 stars If it weren’t for the appearance of an Xbox, porn magazines, and pot brownies, “Duck Season” would look like a filmed Samuel Beckett play. Indeed, in his auspicious feature-length debut, Mexican writer-director Fernardo Eimbcke wraps existential pretensions in the simple staples of adolescent existence, posing many questions along the way: Can videogames settle monetary disputes? Can pornography explain adolescent romance? Can pot brownies reveal the mysteries of growing up? Eimbcke deigns to answer these questions. He is interested...
...glitch spoiled the transcontinental debut. The broadband Internet connection allowed videoconferencing but not the mechanical operation of the pen. Still, Atwood is optimistic. She created Unotchit, the company that makes LongPen, to eliminate the strain of book tours, which can be exhausting, expensive and in some cases physically impossible. Atwood, 66, says that after more than 30 years of touring, she had to look ahead: "As I enter the golden years, let's face it, I will be incapable of doing that...
...architectureis concerned, if the 20th century was the age of the box, the 21st is fast becoming the age of the wiggle. Over the past few years, and especially after the debut of Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain, the sturdy glass-and-steel rectangle, for decades the default mode for serious buildings, has begun to give way to the parabola, the whiplash curve and geometries so irregular, there's no point in looking them up in geometry books. Thanks to a combination of insistent forward thinking by architects and ever more ingenious computer-design software, buildings...
...baseman Matt Gaski went 2-for-2 with two RBIs.Salsgiver paced the Crimson with a 2-for-4 day at the plate.FLORIDA 12, HARVARD 6For six-and-a-half innings on Friday, Harvard went tit for tat with Florida. Cole worked into the sixth inning of his standout collegiate debut, allowing four runs, all earned, and two hits.The Gators took a 4-3 lead against submarining junior reliever Jason Brown in the sixth, and the Crimson went down in the seventh without scoring a run.Then, things got ugly.Brown recorded the first two outs of the bottom of the seventh...