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...Does the food really have to be all the same color?” asks Chelsea Y. Grate...
Despite these late-night lures, the Loker scene is far from Landsdowne Street. Grate characterizes the atmosphere as “pretty mellow,” adding, “I have never seen an upperclassman there. It is all freshmen…everyone is getting math help.” So far, the Grill’s reception from the freshmen has been lukewarm, and despite shuttles to and from the ’Berg until four a.m., the upperclassmen aren’t passing over the Quincy Grille for Loker. Whether or not the late-night Loker Grill...
...jauntiest, as when it shows Oscar at work in a whale car wash, Shark Tale is the Jaws that refreshes, but too often it just piles on the gags. The film has a hectic, sitcom air and a full-of-himself hero who is as likely to grate as to ingratiate...
...political winds in Iraq plainly suggests that as long as he's inside Shiite Islam's holiest shrine surrounded by American troops, tanks and aircraft, he holds a clear political advantage. Although the latest pause in the military effort to dislodge Sadr and his men from the shrine may grate at the morale of the U.S. troops gearing up to do the job, Allawi may have had little choice. The national conference is critical to his own efforts to establish a popular base for his government, and on Saturday it became plain that there was little support among delegates...
...vain son of a bitch," says a former colleague. "Human relations are not his strong suit," says another. With his high-pitched giggle and awkward bearing, the fleshy former Harvard professor comes across in unguarded moments as eccentric and condescending. His jokes fall flat; his attempts to ingratiate just grate...