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...whole movie seems to be trying so hard to get arrive at some sort of point that you’re just left feeling bored and vaguely depressed.Steve Martin, playing Ray Porter, wealthy divorcee and admirer of Mirabelle’s, is strangely robotic, and the accentuated age gap between him and Danes just makes the whole affair less palatable. Watching their physical relationship progress, I grew overly concerned for the health of his heart. Happily, his complete lack of chemistry with Danes assured that not enough passion could be generated for this to be an issue. The only question...
...jeans,” says Wood, sporting painted jeans and an inside-out Garment District sweater. “My father looked at me one day and told me that I looked like everyone else.” Realizing that his father was right, Wood was inspired during his gap year in China to start making his own clothes with the fabrics he found there. Wood is one of a group of Harvard students who buck the Jasmine Sola/J. Crew trend and make their own clothes. Most have no plans to have their designs stocked in Saks, and they aren?...
...kids still getting left behind? The good news is that the gap between math skills of white students and black students is shrinking. But Gage Kingsbury of the Northwest Evaluation Association, which conducts testing for public schools, says the NCLB's goal of eliminating the gap by 2014 seems too optimistic. "At this pace, it'll be 2034 before they're on a par," he says, adding that, without huge advances, achieving parity in reading may take 200 years...
...outside world would undermine his power, seems to have reversed course. Earlier this month, Pyongyang banned sales of grain in the country's recently legalized farmers' markets and announced a return to the old socialist system of government-controlled rice handouts. Private grain markets were just a stop-gap measure necessitated by a few bad harvests, according to the North Korean official in charge of our group, Choe Jong Hun. "Now we have a good harvest and we are able to feed ourselves," said Choe. "There is no need to sell rice in the markets...
...tenure, 12 years. So ‘go figure’ is the best way I can put it.”Despite all the mistakes, it seemed Harvard had righted the ship in the second half. After trailing 9-3 and then 17-10, the Crimson closed the gap to 20-17 early in the fourth quarter. Nearing the end of a 69-yard drive that had reached the Princeton five-yard line and facing a fourth-and-two, Murphy elected to go for the first down instead of kicking the game-tying field goal. On the 13th consecutive...