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...great effect. Adventureland presents the bigger narrative challenge. He wants us to feel the sticky heat of summer days and the humming thrill of the nights, but he's required to move things along, plotwise. To this end, he's made poor James a virgin who is eager to be otherwise, allowing romance to lend shape to the summer. Will he find love with Em? Or the practically mythical Lisa P? (The fact that she is not Lisa, not Lisa Peters, but Lisa P, is perhaps the movie's most exquisitely right touch.) But which girl, if any, James ends...
Greenberg is more eager to talk about the future. Instead of the government's plan to sell off parts of AIG, he believes the quickest way for taxpayers to recoup billions in federal bailout money is to rebuild the company. "Get AIG back so that it is a taxpayer and an employer again," he says...
...Past governments have had their chances. Lured by good rail and river links, new industries poured into Canning Town in the mid-19th century. The Thames Ironworks Ship Building and Engineering Co. opened a 30-acre site at Bow Creek in 1846, bashing out ships for much of Europe. Eager for jobs, workers from all over the country poured in. The seasonal or casual work on offer meant few could afford comfortable places to live, though; landlords, well aware of the fact, threw up cheap housing without toilets, bathrooms and oftentimes drinking water. The over-crowding and disease appalled visitors...
...sophomore Alexei Chijoff-Evans said. “We weren’t playing at full strength, so I think it was as successful a trip as it could have been.”SAN DIEGO 5, HARVARD 2On Saturday, the Crimson squared up against No. 75 San Diego, eager to register a win in its last non-conference dual match of the season. Despite drawing level with the Toreros at 2-2, Harvard was unable to muster a win in its last three, tightly-contested singles.“If we had our full squad without any injuries...
...climate change. The National Stadium in Beijing, the Great Pyramids in Egypt, the Empire State Building in New York and even the Strip in Las Vegas - all will go dark for an hour to raise awareness of climate change and show that there is a worldwide constituency out there eager for action. "This is the only event regarding climate change that is truly global," says Carter Roberts, the president of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in the U.S., which is coordinating the event. "Climate change is the most global of problems, and the global community needs to come together...