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...snowflakes which seem to hover just inches from the viewer’s face to the eerily protruding nose of the unscrupulous Scrooge (Jim Carrey), Zemeckis’ effects add depth to the film without seeming gimmicky. Certain scenes in particular employ 3-D to unique and immersive effect??most notably Scrooge’s many modes of transportation. One of these involves a mobile room with an invisible floor; as the room zooms in and over London, tables and chairs lurching across the invisible expanse, Scrooge and his surroundings establish separate planes of depth that are utterly...
...main event of the 2003 World Series of Poker, where he won the first prize of $2.5 million. The crowning of a regular Joe as World Champion had seismic effects: interest in poker spiked—a trend that has been dubbed the “Moneymaker Effect??—and hobbyists emerged from the woodwork as they realized that it was possible for the layman to overthrow the professional. The Davids rose up against the Goliaths. After all, they had luck on their side—and luck is the great leveler...
...this is not to deemphasize the importance of modern medicine. There are certainly drugs and treatments on the market that continue to significantly improve upon the placebo effect??but equally important is the perception and the culture of health care...
...Tensions mounted during the fall as a small group of vocal first-year students publicly challenged the Medical School administration with mixed success and divisive effect??even giving rise to a reactionary student movement put off by the first-years’ anti-industry rhetoric...
...Houses facing the river.”But other councillors, including Harvard graduates Edward A. Crane ’35 and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo ’29, defended the university’s efforts to acquire more land, citing the university’s “stabilizing effect?? on the city’s economy due to its role as a major employer.PROFILES IN CAMBRIDGEThe class of 1959 graduated without seeing a decision on the MTA yards. In 1959 the first of the Program for Harvard College Houses, Quincy, opened. Although the University continued its efforts...