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Breaking up is not so hard to do. Even after sharing a phone, a shower and a common room for a full year, Jacob S. Honoroff '01 sees his first-year roommates only on rare occasions. Like many sophomores, Honoroff and his three roommates from Weld went their separate ways last...
...murderous deal extended to Noah at the Flood. Moses, however, will not have it. He argues that such a course would render empty God's grand statement in bringing his people out of Egypt; it would also violate the compact he made long ago with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. Moses strategically inserts in his argument an echo of the Noah story reminding God that he has sworn off this sort of thing. Astoundingly, God backs down. Moses returns to camp and, seeing the calf himself for the first time, smashes the tablets and has 3,000 of the idolatrous revelers...
...honest rustics, we are not exactly in Robert Frost country here. Hank (Bill Paxton) is smart enough to guess that money in this amount is going to be pursued by its rightful (or, more likely, wrongful) owners, but he's a weak, inexplicably damaged fellow. His brother Jacob (cunningly played by Billy Bob Thornton) is a halfwit, and Jacob's pal Lou (Brent Briscoe) has a heedless temper. Back home, Hank's wife Sarah (Bridget Fonda) quickly turns into this caper's Lady Macbeth...
...Brassiere 1914, popularized by Mary Phelps Jacob, a New York City debutante who later sold the patent...
...Electric Razor 1931, by Col. Jacob Schick, who sold 3,000 the first year...