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...dining hall got so crowded this year that it recently had to impose stricter inter-House dining restrictions, requiring all Winthrop students to secure Winthrop House stickers for their IDs. At least the dining hall is a convenient place to hang out with friends and do work late at night, boasting a lasting stock of soda, coffee, tea, and carbs. The food itself during meals is middle-of-the-road: better than Adams House and Annenberg Hall, but not as high-quality as Dunster or Currier...
Score: +150 for coziness, +120 for supporting productive late-night work, -20 for sometimes still getting too crowded, -50 for losing Sonia
...past decade, Hanks has worked overtime to support the National World War II Museum in New Orleans - a pet project of the late historian Stephen Ambrose, on whose book Band of Brothers was based. On March 2, the museum, which will soon open a Pacific-theater wing, hosted a reception after a local screening of The Pacific, attended by the last wave of old-timers who consider V-J day a personal accomplishment. Wherever Hanks travels, veterans accost him with thank-yous. "It's pretty heady," Hanks says. "But now the Korean War guys have started coming...
...Would you still believe in the craft? I probably would still be an actor, because this is what I make a living doing, and I have been making a living with it for so long. To chuck it all in and start something else - it's a bit too late. Would I still believe in the craft? Absolutely, but on my terms, and that's where the difficulty would set in. It would feel like fighting a lost cause. But because I'm so bloody stubborn, I would fight it anyway...
...greenback in recent weeks - a slide that may not yet be over. "After so much protest about the strong euro, I know there are big French exporters out there who aren't unhappy seeing it where it is now," French Economy Minister Christine Lagarde told Europe 1 radio in late February, just days before the euro's exchange rate to the dollar dropped another cent, to a nine-month...