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...expected is that the obvious tension will be broken just the next day by Happy’s frank question: “Do you have any interest in having sex with me?”The film’s greatest strength is its ability to invest the everyday with humor. Brian’s life before meeting Happy is one of limited scope. His job, as he describes it, involves selling less than 10 mattresses a month; his social life consists entirely of family dinners with his sleepy 80-year-old father and visits to his friend Larry?...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Gigantic | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...none of them answers the question of why write a single one. Sure, he has schizophrenia, but that’s simply a fact of his fictional life no matter how much it tugs at my heartstrings. So—what? If I’m going to invest myself in “Lowboy”—or in John Wray, for that matter—I need to know that his story matters not just to his mother and him. I need to know that it matters...

Author: By Jillian J. Goodman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Style Forces Substance Underground | 4/24/2009 | See Source »

...would [also] like to work with men and women on both sides of the aisle who bring a respect and civility to political discourse that I think we’ve abandoned. There are so many issues out there that are controversial and neither party has been willing to invest the political capital to solve them. I’d like to see us try to do it in a bipartisan...

Author: By Evan T. R. Rosenman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ridge Criticizes Both Obama And Bush Administrations | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...York $1.5 million in fines after it determined Vargas had lied about his knowledge of fraud that executives had committed at a bank he was in the process of acquiring. (As part of his settlement with the Reserve Bank, he didn't have to admit guilt.) Today, Vargas cannot invest in U.S. banks without government permission. Still, the incident doesn't seem to have put much of a dent in his personal worth (which he declines to divulge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dead Polo Ponies and Their Millionaire Owner | 4/23/2009 | See Source »

...Personally, I am willing to make some sacrifices and invest some money in order to have a light environmental footprint,” Solem said, adding that she drives a hybrid car, uses reusable shopping bags, and tries to take public transportation whenever possible...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Stores Celebrate Earth Day | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

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