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Interfilm's "Mr. Payback," written and directed by Bob Gale (creator of "Back to the Future"), presents this coercion in a new light. The 20-minute movie, which you're invited to experience twice, is like a filmed Choose Your Own Adventure, except that audience members engage in a putative competition to determine the plot twists...
...Most students were just using Harvard as a way station for something else," Samp says. "They didn't consider Cambridge their residence except when they registered to vote...
...went this past weekend for the Harvard women's hockey team, except that its sojourn took it not to Florida or Hawaii, but rather to good old Providence...
...Yousef and Salameh put their bomb in a van and drove it to the basement of the World Trade Center. The eventual explosion killed six people and injured more than 1,000. Within days the main suspects in the bombing were arrested--except for Yousef, who, using the name Abdul Basit, escaped on a plane to Pakistan just hours after the explosion. Says Dwyer: ``He masterminded every detail of the plot, including his own escape, which he pulled off more expeditiously than anyone else.'' Yousef's capture was the culmination of one of the most extensive and painstaking manhunts...
...court. The school board has appealed. The Clinton Justice Department, which inherited the case, remained on Taxman's side until last summer, when it switched. ``It was an appropriate affirmative-action plan,'' insists Assistant Attorney General Deval Patrick, ``because race did not trump anything that matters.'' Except Taxman's job. A court ruling on the appeal is expected well in time for use in Republican campaign...