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...ludicrous for those looking in from the outside. Complicating the matter further was a convoluted knot of parliamentary procedure that left professors at the meeting unsure of what motions they were voting for in the first place. The end result, a pointless miasma of motions and amendments, served nothing except the vanity of those thinking they were arguing over something meaningful. The situation eventually vaporized, as most issues at Harvard tend to, by University President Draw G. Faust agreeing to set up a committee exploring the issue. If the Faculty enjoys this sort of thing, it might be well-advised...
...magnet in Hollywood hasn't given himself or his fans much to laugh at. He was a tough, emotionally constipated cop chasing androids in I, Robot, and an ambitious man who loses his job, his home and his wife - everything but his young son - in The Pursuit of Happyness. Except for a romantic holiday in Hitch, the one-time Fresh Prince has become a stolid, solitary warrior in a gulag of gloom...
...three years after the onset of a virus with catastrophic consequences. Weeds have sprouted and flourished in Times Square. Tattered billboards for Broadway shows mock the desolation of the place, which is now ugly, cratered and overrun by wildlife - kind of what it was like in the 1970s. Except that now Times Square is empty of all human life except for Robert Neville (Smith), who patrols the streets with his rifle and his faithful dog Samantha. He spots a deer and is ready to gun it down, when a lioness leaps on her prey and begins devouring...
...range of properties, some of the most luxurious hotels in the world. It is also expanding: in the past few years it has snapped up properties in Boston, Manhattan and San Francisco. "It would be very easy for us to make an open offer [for Orient-Express]," says Kumar. "Except for our own restraint...
...right for the part—the known, not-known, or whatever. My standards are high; I think I know good acting when I see it. So it’s just a long process—putting people together.” A long process that is, except when it came to casting the principal female character, Samantha Booke. Jurnee Smollett (“Gridiron Gang,” “Roll Bounce”) only read for the part once before Washington made up his mind that she was perfect for the role. Laughing, he admits...