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...what you still, secretly, are. This tendency could be the film industry's wise acknowledgment that inside every adult is a backward child ruled by fears and cravings. Or it could just be that movie people know what audiences will pay to see: grownups behaving not like Cary Grant sophisticates exchanging witty repartee but like kindergartners making poop jokes. (Read TIME's interview with director Brad Silberling...
...prices have rebounded - in part (and ironically) because of a huge government spending binge in China that has had companies here frantically restocking their supplies of copper, iron ore and other commodities used in industrial production. "The biggest driver of discontent [with the Chinalco deal] among Rio shareholders," says Grant Craighead, managing director of Australia-based independent research group Stock Resource, "was that the deal was being struck close to the low point in the current financial crisis. Over recent months the market decided that the worst of the crisis was over, and life's likely to get better...
Harvard further insulates us from the outside world through the easily-obtained extensions on assignments and exams that are offered to students. Many professors and teaching fellows grant extensions to students here, sometimes for legitimate reasons such as illness, and sometimes for less legitimate reasons such as procrastination and poor planning on the part of the student. While these extensions might be beneficial in the short term in allowing students to receive higher grades, they are in the long term detrimental. There are many aspects of life here that promote procrastination, particularly assignments stacked towards the end of a semester...
...research, including stem cell science. According to the University’s statement, Harvard is expected to provide the City with additional payments for housing initiatives as well. In early April, Harvard and the Boston Redevelopment Authority launched the Harvard Allston Partnership Fund, which will provide $500,000 in grants over the next five years to fund community improvement projects that foster neighborhood improvement, cultural enrichment, and educational programs in Allston. The deadline for neighborhood non-profits to submit grant proposals for the upcoming year ended April 30. Harvard’s Allston Education Portal, established last summer as part...
...lieu of a marriage license, he and Hathaway have drawn up legal documents that grant them rights automatically afforded married couples, covering everything from child custody to property. And yet this arrangement still gives him some sense of freedom. "Every day we're making this decision and this commitment anew," he says. "I'm not with you because there would be legal speed bumps to get through if we weren't. I'm with you because this is where I want...