Word: kicking
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...Nonetheless, he would have gotten a kick out of Jarmusch's languid absurdity, most of which seems intended and is for the most part pleasing. The film, which is set entirely in Spain, is visually precise and quite beautiful but deliberately vague on details like plot points and names. The lead is Lone Man, played by Jarmusch regular Isaach De Bankolé, who deserves to be called something more evocative, like "He of the Supreme Cheekbones." His first set of marching orders - he gets many - are to "go to the towers, go to the cafe and look for the violin...
...from a hopeful applicant—is complete with the student’s name, high school, and address, with rows of “Harvard” written across the header, with a miniscule “Yale” in the middle.“The biggest kick was that he sent it with a giant paper clip,” says Ian Anderson, the office’s file room director—perhaps the most important cog in the well-oiled machine behind Harvard Admissions. “I think he ended up going to Yale...
...Health that it had a case of atypical swine flu; and on Sunday, Health Minister Dr. Martin Vazquez recognized Oaxaca as being the state that started the alert. (Though other affected states may have suffered earlier infections, they did not notify the central government.) And so Adela's death kick-started the epidemiological investigation. So far, 159 people in Mexico are suspected to have died from the H1N1 virus. The hospital in Oaxaca currently has three patients suspected to be suffering from the virus who are not responding well to treatment...
...swine flu epidemic gripping Mexico probably won't claim as many lives as the 1985 earthquake did. But it could still claim political victims - and this time Mexico's nascent democracy could stand to get a kick in the head instead of a shot in the arm. Even before the flu emergency hit Mexico last week, the PRI was enjoying leads of as many as 10 points in polls asking voters which party they preferred in upcoming national midterm elections on July 5. President Felipe Calderon's National Action Party (PAN), which vanquished the PRI in 2000 and again...
...Harvard Club Soccer team took home the gold at Saturday’s “Kick Out Malaria Cup,” an event aimed at raising money for mosquito nets for villages in Sierra Leone. The event, organized by the team itself, is a sign of the increased freedom sports teams have as they transform from junior varsity to club-level organizations. Last year, Harvard’s JV Soccer Team, plagued with low participation rates and dwindling competition, disintegrated and the Harvard Club Soccer team emerged in its place. “It was really a shame...