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Coming to every theater near you on May 4: Spider-Man 3. (The first two films about the Marvel Comics kid with the gooey arms took in $1.6 billion worldwide.) Then on May 18, Shrek the Third. (Total gross of the first two chapters: $1.4 billion.) And a week later, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End. (The first two earned more than $1.7 billion.) That's close to $5 billion for the six movies, not including the really easy money in DVD revenue. How big the bucks for Take 3 in each of the gigan-chises...
...COOP, of course, would then raise prices. It would not be a gross outrage of a price increase; it is a business, not an evil empire. Using the low estimation of a student’s annual textbook cost, the COOP already makes six million dollars a year off the College. When the better part of C-CAP’s proposed $200,000 in handouts reach COOP registers, the price increase will be slight—two percent, maybe even five percent—but an increase in its bottom line nonetheless...
...Nine. Get rid of the rancid smell in front of Winthrop. We don’t know what it is. We don’t want to know what it is. But you know what we’re talking about, and it’s gross. By any means necessary, be it the planting of some fragrant trees or the reworking of Harvard’s sanitation system (and green flush handles do not constitute reworking), the removal of this odor is imperative. River-dwellers can do without this daily olfactory assault...
...characters come on the scene with iconoclastic bravado. Seeley, the powerhungry, postmodernist Australian expat, launches a magazine in the hopes of fomenting a nihilistic revolution and toppling Murray, whom he regards as a gross charlatan and a fraud...
According to last year’s senior survey data, 80 percent of seniors said they had a significant international experience during their time at the College, Gross said...