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...perfect test of her professional skills. Hired to replace Kate Winslet on a week's notice, Johansson arrived on a London location never having met Allen or any of her fellow actors and was obliged immediately to plunge into one of her crucial scenes, in which, half drunk, she (temporarily) fends off the advances of Jonathan RhysMeyers, playing a character who may soon be her brother-in-law. She was, at the time, 19, and although she had been acting in movies for a decade, she had more often been a chastely yearned for object (Lost in Translation, Girl with...
...Egyptians who lived in the high-toned neighborhood around the park complained to authorities of human waste and garbage proliferating. Three refugee children died because of illness and exposure to cold temperatures. Meanwhile, mosque personnel complained that the Sudanese were sitting on the sidewalk beside the mosque getting drunk and leaving their alcohol bottles littering the pavement. And, in the first week of January, the small garden had to be free to accommodate the thousands of pious Muslims who were expected gather for prayer around the mosque to mark the holy Bayram feast...
...approved in 1986. He spent little on his campaigns--in his last two elections, he accepted no contributions--and in 1975 instituted Congress's monthly Golden Fleece awards to highlight wasteful spending by the government. Among the winners: an alcohol-abuse agency's $102,000 tab to determine whether drunk fish were more aggressive than sober ones; and a law-enforcement group's $27,000 study to find out why inmates try to escape from prison...
While students may consider facebook.com a fun way to procrastinate and avoid work, joining groups with names such as these, posting inappropriate material, or appearing drunk in a picture could prove to be more than just a social faux...
...Unfortunately, Harvard is not immune from this sort of misplaced outrage. Last semester, some belligerent drunk, white trash, townie hooligans’ minor altercation with a gay student led to campus-wide condemnation of anti-gay violence. More than 1,200 pink bandanas were distributed to show solidarity with the victim, and students even marched to “take back” the site where the incident took place...