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...love Burton’s “dark, brooding sensibility” and the “amazing production design of ‘Batman,’” it’s no surprise that “Charlie” made it off the ground. What the public received, instead of a triumphant return to form for a once interesting and offbeat commercial director, was a cultural product more neo-fascist in character than a cabinet meeting in the Bush administration. How a movie about an evil dictator who fires all his employees, leaving them...
Cornell has held junior running back Clifton Dawson to an average of 67.5 yards on the ground in the teams’ two meetings during Dawson’s career...Senior offensive tackle Brian Lapham will play despite seeing limited practice time due to a knee injury...Cornell has allowed 30-plus points the last two weeks against Yale and Colgate...Harvard is 253-5-1 all time when scoring 30 points or more...
...movie tries to have it both ways with sobering “violence is bad” moments, like the death of a twelve-year-old boy. The mixed messages are summed up in a final voice-over by Matt, who claims to have learned when to stand his ground and when to walk away...
However, in the movie, defending the honor of one’s football team is depicted as a perfectly valid reason to stand one’s ground. The message thus comes across as something more like, “Violence: it’s all in good fun until someone gets seriously injured or killed.” As morals go, telling us that broken noses are fine while broken carotid arteries are not doesn’t exactly rank with “do unto others...
Such anecdotes abound. As the president of the Harvard Radcliffe Orchestra (HRO), Jimmy faces a crowd of more than 100 twice a week. He organizes, coordinates, plans concerts and competitions, and addresses the concerns of individual members. He seems never to lose his ground...