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...isn’t a lack of interest in the Chinese language program. “China is playing a very important role in globalization,” said Feng, who added that the success of Harvard Beijing Academy, a nine-week summer Chinese program in Beijing, helped to garner student interest in the language. “Harvard students are smart enough to follow the trend, they want to be the leaders of the future,” he said. “For heritage students, before, taking Chinese was for their identity, but now it?...
Such a system will even be advantageous for the Democrats and Republicans. At least initially, fusion voting will strengthen the two-party system, allowing the establishment parties to garner votes that might otherwise go to candidates with no hope of winning. In return, mainstream campaigns will be forced to speak to difficult local and regional issues instead of safely spouting the hackneyed political fare that they are used...
...franchise, was the disturbing "tonality," according to the film's director, Darren Lynn Bousman. "This movie is too dark?" asks Bousman, a 27-year-old Elvis Costello look-alike from Kansas. "That's what I set out to do! It's a horror movie." Before altering Saw III to garner a more box-office-friendly R-rating, Bousman called up another director who specializes in movies people watch through their fingers, Rob Zombie, the tattooed heavy-metal vocalist. "I told him to talk to the MPAA as a filmmaker," says Zombie, 41, whose depraved gorefest The Devil's Rejects contains...
...alimentary rewards from fish, mainly their protein and omega-3 fatty acids. The researchers emphasized two statistics related to seafood intake: a 36% decrease in the risk of death from heart disease and a 17% reduction in total mortality. Only two servings of fish a week are requisite to garner these benefits. Though this study may give relief to some, Harvard students don’t seem to have bitten the media’s fish-denouncing bait. “Student demand for seafood, especially fish, has really climbed over the last year,” said Crista Martin...
...poorly written and socially ignorant you almost want Thornton to sling blade him out of existence. Supporting roles from Sarah Silverman (“Jesus is Magic”), David Cross (“Arrested Development”) and Ben Stiller make a last-ditch attempt to garner some laughter but just can’t carry this uncreative vehicle. Fortunately for Silverman though, “Scoundrels” proves she is becoming a comedic force in her own right. Playing Amanda’s bitchy roommate, she comes across as harsher than Dr. P in her barbs...