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...point here is not to criticize those who leave college early for proball. Their talent is their's alone and no one can be blamed for jumping at the opportunity to earn millions playing professionally. Nevertheless, fans can only lament the talent drain and lack of continuity that the early departures create...
...Peron (Jonathan Pryce), a junta colonel who becomes Argentina's President in 1946. Eva's glamour--less a natural attribute than a triumph of her will--and her urge to help the poor humanize Peron's stolid majesty; they also come close to bankrupting the country, even as they drain her. She fulfills the rock-age hagiography: live big, die young, and leave a memory that time can transform into gaudy myth...
...Ponceludon de Malavoy (Charles Berling). Despite his lengthy name, by court standards he is a mere country bumpkin. His ancestral territory is a treacherous swampland, a breeding-ground for disease-bearing mosquitoes, and his people are dying. Gregoire is something of an engineer and he has a plan to drain the marshlands, for which he needs the help of the King. At court, he quickly discovers that access to the King is all but impossible for a humble man of the country. The only possible route is to scale the court hierarchy and win admission to the king's presence...
...hear for a while. It is the story--and I urge you to take Gen Ed 105 so you can hear this for yourself--about the time Coles, a grad student at Harvard, spends a week mixing a particular chemical in lab, only to mistakenly pour it down the drain at the very end. His instructor stood there watching and laughing, and didn't stop him. Coles cursed, dropped the flask, and walked...
...through the grants process. We are tired of watching idly as the $20 that each of us contributes to the Undergraduate Council is used to fund expensive, poorly attended and often ill-conceived parties and dances that have little positive impact on student life. These events are simply a drain on resources that can easily be rectified with the reforms currently before the council...