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...young engaged couples asking for a diamond's certificate of origin. Meanwhile, DiCaprio's greenie documentary The 11th Hour made just $700,000. "There's a 99% chance your film won't have an impact," says writer-director Paul Haggis, whose movies have tackled racism (Crash), euthanasia (Million Dollar Baby) and the mental health of Iraq-war veterans (In the Valley of Elah). "It would be hubris to think otherwise...
...reasons in 2000. Castro’s initial hostility fell away with Hurricane Michelle the next year; By 2007, the U.S. was Cuba’s largest food supplier and its seventh largest trading partner overall. The weakening of tourist and remittance restrictions have revealed just how valuable the dollar is in Havana, where surgeons moonlight as bellhops because the tips they make from American tourists are worth more than their professional salary. Imagine what an actual repeal of the embargo might accomplish...
...particular concern because the money and prioritization inherent in pursuing excellence in this most glamorous of sports can easily compromise a school’s mission. In this respect specifically, football differs from the other 40 sports offered at Harvard: The money spent and made in this billion-dollar business, together with the number of athletes who must be recruited to field a team (last season’s roster exceeded 100 players), form a set of strains on the university system to which no other sport compares. Coupled with the additional time that student-athletes will be diverted from...
March Madness, that postseason basketball binge of million-dollar sponsorships under the guise of amateur athletics, is upon us once again. The players at Caltech, who compete in the NCAA's Division III, its lowest rung, will never get an invite to that party. Playoffs? Caltech coach Roy Dow is looking for kids who can hang on to the ball. The team just finished 1-24 and, for the 23rd straight season, failed to win a game in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference. The legendary science-and-engineering school may have 31 Nobel Prize winners to its name...
...sacrifices some musical quality to its political aims. The “New Amerykah” cover art serves as a blaring warning that the fainthearted and “Hill-Duff” fans should probably sit this one out. Fetuses, cellular phones, black power fists, whips, dollar signs, and a double helix caught in Badu’s afro immediately signal that she has a lot to sing about. In album opener “Amerykahn Promise,” a robotic voice instructs passengers to leave their valuables at home. It declares, “We love...