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...characters who quickly take the book's center are the ne'er-do-well Charlie and Frank, the budding capitalist. Continually rebuffed in their efforts to earn money, Charlie, the tall, lanky one who spouts aphorisms, and Frank, the short, chubby one, look and act like the Mutt and Jeff of Japan. Unlike Mutt and Jeff, however, Charlie and Fred's difficulties are almost exclusively a result of their race. They live as distrusted non-citizens in world that both needs them and reviles them at the same time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Coming to America | 2/19/2005 | See Source »

...Jeff Daniels clunks around in a despairingly mediocre role as Opal’s father, a man known solely as the Preacher. He pines for his former wife, who left the family when Opal was three, and works too much to have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...

Author: By Julie Y. Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Because of Winn-Dixie Review | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...Jeff Daniels clunks around in a despairingly mediocre role as Opal’s father, a man known solely as the Preacher. He pines for his former wife, who left the family when Opal was three, and works too much to have time for his daughter. As the weary and well-meaning father and parishioner of a convenience store-turned-Baptist church, he dispenses lines such as, “There’s nothing wrong with making church more convenient,” with forced chuckles to his meager congregation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 2/18/2005 | See Source »

...have gone by, and the memories have piled up to become the bricks of Currier House, a house I now proudly represent as HoCo president. Hours upon hours have been spent here on Tuchman 3rd watching Scrubs episodes, figuring out how to keep Beirut stats, listening in silence to Jeff Buckley’s version of “Hallelujah,” and welcoming new kids to what now feels like my floor. Slowly but surely, I have stopped feeling like the outsider. And now, I can only say thank you to my friends for giving this transfer...

Author: By Jonathan C. Bardin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Making a House a Home | 2/17/2005 | See Source »

...sophomores posted the only wins against the Lions, with Preston defeating Jeff Sato 2-0 and Ogunwole gaining a 6-2 decision on Bart Seemen...

Author: By Megha Parekh and Pablo S. Torre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Ogunwole, Preston Shine, But Wrestling Drops Four | 2/14/2005 | See Source »

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