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...undergraduate student—who asked to remain anonymous to preserve relations with the administration—reported remaining on campus for two weeks without authorization, holed up for most of the time in a dorm room with a rice cooker and instant noodles. The student, who had missed the application deadline for authorization, did not have swipe access to the House, but was never identified by administrators for the infraction...
...Hughes' teen classic The Breakfast Club - is still having an impact. The film, which starred Molly Ringwald as the princess, Judd Nelson as the rebel, Emilio Estevez as the jock, Anthony Michael Hall as the geek and Ally Sheedy as the misfit, premiered on Feb. 7, 1985, and made instant icons out of its young cast members. "You see us as you want to see us, in the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions," Hall writes at the end of the movie to their grown-up tormentor. In You Couldn't Ignore Me if You Tried: The Brat Pack...
...issued (due to how fast new thoroughfares are being built). The next section describes Hessler's experiences living in a north China village that is transformed by the construction of a new road that links it to Beijing. The book concludes with a look at the economic dynamics of "instant cities" that keep springing up along a highway south of the Yangtze River. (Read "China Takes on the World...
...grander scale, Avatar has achieved what many industry savants thought impossible. It has passed the $1.843 billion worldwide gross of the previous all-time smash: Cameron's own Titanic, from 1997. Barring an instant apocalypse, Avatar will have passed Titanic's $600.8 million domestic take by the end of January. Since the new movie's gross is declining only 10% to 15% each week - far less than most pictures - there may be no stopping the Avatar avalanche...
...earlier version of this post incorrectly referred to the Immediate Gratification Players as the Instant Gratification Players. The post also stated incorrectly that IGP is the oldest improv comedy group on campus. In fact, it is the second-oldest group...