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...course, horror films aren't the only place kids can go to for their violence fix. Eli Roth, director of Hostel, an R-rated film about a European backpacking trip gone horribly wrong, knows that kids under 18 are seeing his films. He thinks they should be 15 or 16 to see the Hostel sequel, due out in June. "Kids that age have seen enough TV and real-life violence by then that they understand the difference," he says. "You can turn on Fox at 9 p.m. and see someone drilling into someone's head [on the series...
...Stanley Institute recognized that we could engage a really terrific group of collaborators, and that was one of the appeals they found in our proposal.” The Stanley gift is the third $100 million grant the Broad Institute has received. The other two came from Eli and Edythe L. Broad, who founded the center with their first gift in 2003. The Stanley Institute is a philanthropy that supports research on schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Scolnick said he hoped the funding will enable his center to find novel treatments for these disorders by involving researchers from a wide range...
...ELI TURNED CRIMSON
...football royalty. While it's true that Peyton Manning has worked hard to hone his God-given talent, it doesn't hurt to have had a father like Archie Manning, the Ole Miss legend and New Orleans Saints standout quarterback. All the Manning boys are genetic freaks: younger brother Eli is a starting quarterback, though not an effective one for now, with the New York Giants, and older brother Cooper was slashing toward stardom before a spinal disorder ended his career (he's now a successful businessman in New Orleans...
There is also still resentment toward the entire Manning clan over the way Eli manipulated the 2004 NFL draft, forcing the San Diego Chargers to trade him to the Giants because he refused to play for what was then a losing team. The Chargers still accuse the Manning family of meddling in the negotiations, though Archie has denied that. Eli has struggled for the Giants, while the quarterback for whom he was traded, Philip Rivers, made the Pro Bowl this year after leading the Chargers to a stellar season. It's a small yet satisfying slither of revenge...