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...clap. But action fans will recognize the acronym of a once-renowned action star - the former European middleweight karate champ known as the Muscles from Brussels in such middling fare as Universal Soldier and No Retreat, No Surrender. Van Damme's career trajectory over the last decade has been direct-to-video; so he must have figured that, when he was offered the chance to play himself, more or less, as a hapless has-been who gets enmeshed in a bank robbery, he had nothing to lose. He was right: JCVD is the best movie he ever made (granted...
...HUPD for all the racial problems on campus. Rather, the committee’s task is to identify and resolve any procedural or institutional flaws that might be aggravating an already sensitive issue.For this effort to be successful, the committee’s review must be both thorough and direct, even in the face of a formidably complex project. In a memorandum to faculty members and administrators, University President Drew G. Faust wrote that the committee would undertake a “consideration of HUPD’s diversity training, community outreach, and recruitment efforts, as well as ways...
...HSCI co-director Douglas A. Melton is the first to report successful “direct reprogramming,” a technique that, as its name suggests, directly transforms one type of a fully formed adult cell into another...
...Sept. 11 story, "HMS Study Finds No Influence from Direct Drug Ads," misstated the roles of the two authors of the study in question. Harvard Medical School professor Stephen B. Soumerai was the co-author, not the principal investigator. The study was in fact the doctoral dissertation of Michael R. Law, who was the paper's primary author. The error was a result of erroneous information provided by the Medical School's communications office...
...recalls the animosity toward the Tories that ushered Labour into power in 1997 and helped keep it there for more than a decade, and for anyone who has witnessed the old antipathies between Britain's lower orders and posh blokes like Cameron - and he is very posh, a direct descendant of King William IV - it's obvious that deeper political and social shifts are taking place...