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WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN. Pedro Almodovar directs this comedy filled with all your favorite soap-opera twists. Pepa, who realizes that her lover Ivan is leaving her, goes on a gun rampage and drugs Ivan’s son’s fiancee with Valium-laced gazpacho. The plot complicates when her friend Candela falls in love with a Shiite terrorist and hides out at Pepa’s home. Then she meets Ivan’s son, Carlos (Antonio Banderas). The 1988 Spanish comedy, filmed in Madrid, is irresistible. Women on the Verge...
...first decades of the 20th century, nature held sway over nurture in most fields. In the wake of World War I, however, three men recaptured the social sciences for nurture: John B. Watson, who set out to show how the conditioned reflex, discovered by Ivan Pavlov, could explain human learning; Sigmund Freud, who sought to explain the influence of parents and early experiences on young minds; and Franz Boas, who argued that the origin of ethnic differences lay with history, experience and circumstance, not physiology and psychology...
Hagamen himself lost a number of close bouts that may have turned out differently had they gone to 15 touches. Both bouts against eventual silver medalist Ivan Lee from St. John’s and fourth-place finisher Alex Weber of Penn State came down to the final touch, with Hagamen falling 4-5 in both...
...Djindjic murder plot, Dusan Spasojevic and Mile Lukovic, died in a gun battle with police. The third, Milorad Lukovic (a.k.a. Legija), the former commander of an élite antiterrorist squad called the JSO, is still on the lam. After questioning members of JSO, officials found the body of Ivan Stambolic, a former Serbian President who disappeared three years ago. Police said drug barons hired Jovanovic, the JSO's deputy commander, to kill Djindjic to prevent government investigations. The JSO was disbanded and a dozen of its members held by police; they arrested four for the abduction of Stambolic...
...Harvard team, composed of Sheel C. Ganatra ’06, Nikita Rozenblyum ’06 and Ivan Z. Corwin ’06 received the top honors on Tuesday—an “outstanding” ranking—along with 15 other undergraduate teams for the international Mathematical Contest in Modeling...