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Barbara Novak (Renee Zellweger), author of the best-selling semifeminist screed Down with Love, is on a collision course with rakish journalist Catcher Block (Ewan McGregor). She thinks he's a pig; he thinks she's a prig. Abetted by their respective editors, Vikki Hiller (Sarah Paulson) and Peter MacMannus (David Hyde Pierce), they parry, gavotte and dissemble: Catcher pretends to be a rube astronaut; Barbara pretends to be...well, we can't give away the plot...
...have a lot of respect for this guy. It’s really brave” said Mark A. Hiller ’05, observing Litinsky. “It’s a shame their boombox keeps skipping...
Leading the antismoking campaign at U.N.H. is Marc Hiller, a professor of health management and policy and the school's self-proclaimed clean-air czar. Sitting in an office overrun by public-health tomes and tobacco-research manuals, Hiller, 52, articulates a campus no-smoking initiative with the same kind of fervor that President Bush reserves for declarations about Saddam Hussein...
...only way to win here is to cut this thing off at the root," declares Hiller. "Nicotine is more addictive than heroin, so you've got to come at it hard...
Truth is, not much of anyone. Though Hiller has acquired a considerable reputation for shaming smokers (both students and fellow colleagues) into submission, he insists that punishing smokers has never been the goal at U.N.H. "Our policy was not drafted to create tobacco police," he says. "We just want to promote a culture where a student who's a nonsmoker won't think twice about walking up to a smoker and asking them to put it out." But, he says after a pause, "if this works out, I'd like to push [the perimeters] back...