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...Lucy does try to ruin Jenna’s career and chances with Matt, but Jenna prevails in all her genuinely young-at-heart, fluorescent glory in the end. Garner’s performance may lend itself to a Julia Roberts reference or two—both have the full-lipped, hearty laugh and smile perfectly complemented by a suitably charming on camera presence. Though the plot could have been written during a middle school sleepover, 13 is cute for cute’s sake—cuter than the recent teenage chick flick Win a Date With Tad Hamilton...
...Beijing has ordered the country's banks to lend less to overheated sectors, including steel, cement and aluminum, and earlier this month dispatched inspection teams to seven provinces to ensure its dictates are heeded. Will it work? In Anhui, Hangxiao Steel recently increased its savings in case loans dry up. That's a good sign: if companies start borrowing less, growth might moderate to a more sustainable pace. From New York to Tokyo, savvy economists will do well to keep a watchful eye on places like Anhui. Now that China is at the heart of the global economy, the future...
...just about perfect with books or VHS tapes—we want creators to be able to control the distribution of their work such that they receive proper attribution and compensation, and yet we want to ensure that the people who buy it have the right to read, lend, sell, annotate, discuss or even burn their copy as they desire. This has been referred to as the right of private performance, and for a long time it was looked upon as sacrosanct...
Furthermore, a J-term could actually raise student workloads just as it would raise faculty workloads. The simple fact is that a J-term will substantially increase the number of days students spend in class at Harvard. But beyond this simple arithmetic, the structure of J-term could easily lend itself to one-upmanship and intense competition between students. Consider two alternative models of J-term. If classes for concentration credit are offered, the month of January—once filled with a quiescent reading period and intersession—will turn into another avenue for over-stressed students...
...whose art helped him escape from Nazi Germany in 1935. Walter Gropius, head of design for functional design firm Isokon, offered him a position in England working on new plywood furniture designs. The chairs that resulted, two of which are present in the exhibition, are the ones that most lend themselves to being mass produced...