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Quite the contrary. It stars Monty Python vet John Cleese as a Las Vegas casino titan who sends some hapless losers on a cross-country race, all for the amusement of a bunch of inveterate international gamblers wagering on which desperado will grab the prize: $2 million in a remote bus-station locker. Before the race is over, Whoopi Goldberg is stranded in the desert; Seth Green and Vince Vieluf, as two brothers whose greed is matched only by their stupidity, get trapped--in their Ford Bronco--atop an airport radar tower; a cow flies; Cuba Gooding Jr. hijacks...
Harvard University Dining Services (HUDS) plans to open a convenience store in the basement of Cabot House next month to provide Quad residents with the opportunity to grab a snack or a new toothbrush without leaving the Quad...
...According to the Okinawa prefectural government, U.S. military personnel were responsible for 5,006 crimes between 1972 and 2001. That's 1.7% of the 290,814 crimes committed in Okinawa during that period?perpetrated by a group that comprised 4% of the population. Rapes and sexual assaults by servicemen grab the fattest headlines of all. Last year, 2,260 rapes nationwide were reported to authorities. Statisticians don't break out how many were committed by foreigners, but this much is known: Of those rapes, 267 occurred in Osaka, 260 in Tokyo, and just 29 in Okinawa...
Person of the Week LETTING BYGONES BE, YOU KNOW ... The generals are in exile or jail; Maggie is on the lecture circuit. It's been two decades since Argentina's junta launched its ill-fated grab for the Falkland Islands. Last week Tony Blair made the first visit to Argentina by a British PM since the hostilities...
...convinced that I have managed to turn a deeper shade of pale. I now pause before putting on shorts, and I usually grab a light sweater—no matter the sweltering heat—to cover my white shoulders when I don a sleeveless dress. I thought it would be easy to come back, but everywhere I turn I am reminded of those beautifully bronzed Floridians that have come to characterize the state: surfers, sunbathers and Mandy Moore. I feel a closer connection with another group of people, a group that I, an avid Disney-goer since birth...