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...answer is, very. The business of the film is to explain why this amiable hunk is being circled by spooky Mr. Goodkat (a tight-lipped Bruce Willis), a wise-guy cop (Stanley Tucci) and two crime lords (Ben Kingsley and Morgan Freeman). To call the film's plot labyrinthine is to understate the case. To say it works out with complete plausibility is to overstate it. Still, the story never runs completely off the rails and is, in any event, just a pretext for a lot of very sharp badinage by Jason Smilovic--a screenwriter who would have been...
...mail. “It was not just that people bought more of the goods once they were labeled, but they bought even more when we raised prices by 10 percent and still more when we raised prices by 20 percent.” Richard B. Freeman, Ascherman professor of economics, said that the study was the most conclusive social labeling experiment done to date. Freeman has also done research on social labeling and its potential to inform consumers’ decisions. “Other social labeling experiments have yielded weak results, and this study builds on them...
...over Columbia kept Harvard from duplicating its 12-15, 4-10 Ivy finish from three years ago, but the parallels between the two seasons remained undeniable. The 2002-03 team had a strong core of upperclassmen, led by captain Brady Merchant, Pat Harvey and Elliot Prasse-Freeman, who expected to lead Harvard into competition for the league title, much as captain Matt Stehle, Brian Cusworth and Mike Beal formed the nucleus of the 2005-06 team, the preseason pick to finish second in the league. Both squads got off to strong starts, going 8-5 in non-conference play...
...erosion of grades as a meaningful measure of learning.” But 70 percent of undergraduate students oppose the change in the grading system, according to a Brown Daily Herald poll taken last month.One of the organizers of today’s forum, Tristan M. D. Freeman, a member of UCS, said the students were overwhelmingly against the addition of pluses and minuses because it would increase competition. “A lot of students at Brown feel that adding pluses and minuses would increase competition for grades, especially in hard sciences,” he said. Armstrong, however...
...zooms in dramatically on a penguin’s feet. Three shots if the close-up lasts for 30 seconds or more. 2. Whenever anyone watching makes an “aww” noise. Two shots if it happens when a penguin freezes to death. 3. Whenever Morgan Freeman tells you what a penguin is thinking, or refers to penguins as “souls.” 4. Each time you pray that the penguins resort to cannibalism, just to spice up the storyline. 5 Whenever you mistake a penguin for Woody Allen. It happens more than you?...