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...King’s Men” must meet the expectations of devotees of the classic novel, the acclaim of the Academy-Award winning 1949 film of the same name, and the rabid Oscar hunt of its star Sean Penn. The movie will likely accomplish none of these goals, except perhaps the last. And even then, only if Matt Damon is taken out at the awards ceremony in a “Team America”-esque coup. Undoubtedly, Penn’s performance is the standout component of this generally mediocre movie. As Willie Stark transforms from an idealist...
...online gambling website Bodog.com gives Etchemendy four-to-one odds for the job, better than every candidate except two Harvard insiders, Law School Dean Elena Kagan, at three to one, and University Provost Steven E. Hyman, at seven...
...Photoshop Elements hit the market about five years ago, I was relieved: all of the really complicated stuff was gone, leaving the more intuitive tools I use to clean up - or totally mangle - a photo. Photoshop Elements 5.0 has new editing features, but I won?t dwell on them, except to say that the program is still tops. What Photoshop Elements now provides, with vast improvement over earlier versions, is a nice way to organize and share pictures...
...understanding is that Yale didn’t even have Friday parties, but at Harvard we can be crazy all the time, except for the five hours that we are across the river in Boston. But it’s a big change, and it would be naive to not be upset. And I hope that no one thinks the Dean’s Office was happy to make this change. We like for students to be happy all the time, but we do have to do what’s best for the University and Boston, as well...
...demise touched all the survivors, but it didn't stanch their biting wit. In fact, now that he's dead, they make fun of Graham a lot. On the BBC2 show 30 Years of Monty Python, Cleese intones: "And I'd just like to say for the whole gang, except for the dead one of course, how pleased we are..." And in a 1998 reunion at Aspen, the gang sits in chairs behind what they say are Chapman's ashes; then Idle gets up to hold the urn and trips, dropping...