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Thank the cruel, vengeful gods for Cormac McCarthy, who delivers a much more comprehensive apocalypse in The Road (Knopf; 241 pages), which is about half the length of Thirteen Moons but 20 times as ruthless. The scenario: a man and his son push a shopping cart with a wiggly wheel through a landscape from which all plant and animal life has been scoured by some undefined but definitive calamity--we know only of "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that left survivors "sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking...
...other teams and securing first place after round one. Emily Balmert, already victorious this year at the Dartmouth Invitational, held the outright lead with a 75. The team rose to the challenge against the renowned difficulty of the Yale University Golf Course, whose 6,232 yards demanded length off the tee but whose massive, undulating greens called for laser-guided precision on mid- and short-irons. “The course puts a premium on accuracy, probably most so on the approach,” said rookie Claire Sheldon, who shot a two-day 155. “There...
...Harvard Film Archive on October 14–is a two-hour montage comprised of all 12 short films. Although this iteration is Lockhart’s original artistic vision for the project, the whole stands as less than the sum of its parts. Indeed, the full-length film, especially when shown in a theater, lacks the intimacy engendered by the Sackler screening rooms. Furthermore, the original film leaves the audience with little time to absorb or ponder each shorter episode. Each of the ten-minute films requires so much concentration on the part of the viewer that...
...theaters this summer, and, ticket sales went up about 6% the first week of summer compared to summer 2005’s first week. “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest” drew in almost $4 billion, despite its exasperating length and tiresome nonstop action sequences. Meanwhile, “Superman Returns” lured the Clark Kent-obsessed out of their mother’s basements while “The Devil Wears Prada” attracted a solid audience and featured the impressive acting chops of Meryl Streep and Anne Hathaway...
...Division I-AA football, higher than 456 Division I-A games. But the 2006 edition will be subject to restrictions unheard of in previous years, even after what was often called an overly restrictive policy at Yale last year that merely banned drinking games and limited the length of the festivities.The new policy has its obvious health-related flaws, which have been well-chronicled in these pages. Students, opponents say, will drink in the houses, binge drink, or avoid seeking help for dangerously intoxicated friends for fear of punishment. Yale’s tougher policy led to a significant drop...