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Affleck spoke of first-hand experience with Harvard as an employer--both his parents worked at the University--and called Harvard's actions "inexcusable...
...total college experience, accompanied by a familiar face from home, first-hand advice on academic and extracurricular life, an automatic hookup to the upper-class social scene, and, of course, it’s Harvard. For quite a few siblings, as Mike Corleone would say, it’s an offer they can’t refuse...
...late-breaking news on Friday read like a series of dispatches from the front lines. There were horrified first-hand accounts of the "wounded and the dead," of those who had "caught a falling knife" and, above all, of the universality of the "carnage." Though the President stoutly refused to acknowledge the situation, those in the trenches were quickly conceding a "painful" defeat...
...movie focuses, or at least tries to focus, on the moral dilemmas that Hodges faces. He trusts his friend, but when he visits Yemen to look for evidence, he witnesses first-hand the effects of Childers's attack and is mortified and subsequently falls off the wagon. But this, the one aspect of this movie that could be interesting or thought provoking-that Hodges has to defend a friend who he believes to be guilty-dissipates into thin air. Hodges simply forgets all that he saw in Yemen and vigorously defends his friend. The audience keeps wondering where the moral...
...Kinky S&M parlors, dark dungeons of pictorial pleasure - anything can pique the interest of a sex-deprived scholar. But to really dig for the dirt first-hand, here's what to expect in your crusade for porn...