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...only other Democratic candidate who lasted until the later primaries was former California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., who did not accept individual contributions in excess of $100, well below the $250 minimum reporting amount...
Granted, my entry tutor is a doctor in residence at a Boston hospital--not the kind of job that provides excess leisure time. But regardless of profession, it seems to me Dunster tutors have a minimal commitment to the house. The effort expended by the four grill managers and the two house committee chairs to foster a sense of community in Dunster dwarfs anything I've seen on the part of the tutors...
Smoking Gun, Nonstop Excess...
...chases, lung cancer is probably the last thing Riggs (Mel Gibson) needs to worry about. The last thing the makers of LETHAL WEAPON 3 worried about was a complex story -- it's simply about stolen guns. The idea was to push the action to a level of excess where it turns parodistically comic, and this is done expertly. They've brought back Joe Pesci as a goofy cop buff, added Rene Russo as the love interest for Riggs -- a policewoman as crazily brave as he is -- and made a cheerfully amoral movie that cannily caters to and satirizes our passion...
...winter. Wrong. Summer (on the movie calendar, from Memorial Day to Labor Day, give or take a week) can bring the major movie studios 40% of their business, but during the past three years, more films released in the winter (from mid-November through March) have grossed in excess of $100 million domestically. The summer just produces more predictable hits, mostly sequels. "Hollywood is front loading the summer with blockbuster sequel products," notes Martin Grove, film analyst for the Hollywood Reporter, "which virtually guarantees that the early summer business will be strong." Lethal Weapon 3 leads the assault this weekend...