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...super-butch Greeks storming Thermopylae, but with fewer casualties and a different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...More potent similarities can be found between 300 and the R-rated film with the all-time highest opening-weekend gross. Consider: It's the beyond-bloody saga of an ancient king who leads a high-minded rebellion against a corrupt hierarchy, who endures extraordinary physical abuse before dying nobly, and whose name has been praised throughout history. In other words, 300 is The Passion of the Christ...
...environmentally friendly businesses to set up tables at the festival, according to Co-Chair Emily A. Wilson, ’07. In past years, the EAC has also set up an energy efficient “model dorm room,” and Dean of the College Benedict H. Gross ’71 has spoken on the use of renewable energy at Harvard. Not to mention, there’s always the usual goodies of food and music, and of course the token EAC Nalgene. This year the festival will take place...
...present, oil provides only 3% of Dubai's GDP, with services accounting for three-quarters. As Sheikh Mo noted when he unveiled his government's new Strategic Plan last month, Dubai has no intention of slowing down. The Ruler vowed to pursue 11% annual growth through 2015 to realize Gross Domestic Product of $108 billion and an average personal income of $44,000 a year. That's pretty big talkin', even by Texas standards...
...than if income rose evenly across all tax brackets. And sure enough, the trend toward more uneven income distribution has been boosting the government's bottom line for decades. In 1979 those with incomes in the top 0.1% of American taxpayers (those with $233,539 or more in adjusted gross income) accounted for 3% of income and 7% of tax receipts, according to the IRS. In 2000 the cutoff for the top 0.1% was $1.6 million, and their share had grown to 10% of income and 19% of taxes...