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...routine is the same in their big-screen debut, except that Best Brains chose a not-so-bad film, This Island Earth--Universal-International's 1955 space opera about American scientists kidnapped to a distant planet, where they are attacked by macrocephalous monsters. The MST3K prologue is a bit ragged, but once This Island Earth kicks in, so does the Brains' mother wit. It finds the absurd everywhere, from the studio logo ("Doesn't the fact that it's Universal make it International?") to the ethereal, annoying ringing sound that accompanies the aliens ("Now we know what the world sounds...
From the perspective of today's budgetary quandaries, we might see the funneling of federal funds into The Hub as an abuse of power. Indeed, it seems to fit the stereotype of the entrenched pre-Gingrich liberal regime. But despite the new national distant for such political practice, it is almost a fact of life in Boston...
...competitors, doctors and hospitals--is spreading like a virus through the entire industry. "These giant health-care mergers are happily galloping toward an oligopoly," says Sara Nichols, Washington director of the nonprofit Physicians for a National Health Care Program. Wall Street analysts foresee a day in the not-too-distant future when the whole country's health-care needs will be largely served by a handful of providers...
...while their peers from such distant sites as Boston University and Tufts came to Cambridge to watch the game, Harvard students were notably absent from such public viewing spots...
...things must pass, and all things shall return. They tell us that every new beginning brings us closer to an end, and every elegy has within it the echo (and the promise) of a future celebration. They say that love that seems eternal now may soon be a distant memory; and that a new love may come along to revive our sense of eternity. They teach us that suffering is inevitable, and in that inevitability is a constancy that helps take the edge off suffering. We cherish flowers more than evergreens, precisely because they do not last...