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...Narayan '99 was at Gutman Library, a few weeks into our first year at Harvard. Navin and I, along with our friend Sarah, were working on a Psychology 1 group assignment. Navin, who was also in my Social Analysis 10 section, arrived at Gutman with his customary one-half-liter bottle of water in hand...

Author: By Geoffrey C. Upton, | Title: Remembering Navin | 3/17/2000 | See Source »

...Bratislava's Finance Minister, "Brutal Brigita" is notorious for her strict, budget-cutting measures. In response to her reign, The Topvar brewerey has launched "Brigita" beer at six crowns (14 cents) a half liter. The beer has been ready to pound...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: 15 Minutes | 3/16/2000 | See Source »

...many cans of beer, a bottle of port somewhat more and a bottle of bourbon would equal quite a few. University officials could carry the exchange rates on a convenient laminated card and rapidly work out whether a room owning a half bottle of amontillado, a third of a liter of brandy and jug of moonshine had broken the laws...

Author: By The Editors, | Title: Dartboards | 3/10/2000 | See Source »

...Juan), or the agreeable one, Manuela's transsexual friend. La Agrado is the movie's ironic wit, garnering lines such as a full list of surgery she has undergone to look like an authentic woman: "almond shaped eyes, 80,000, silicone in lips, forehead, cheeks, and ass--the liter costs 60,000 pesetas; you add it up, because I stopped counting. Tits? Two. I'm no monster." Agrado's entry into the action gives the film a sardonic appeal but destroys the integrity of the drama. Penelope Cruz, one of Spain's up and coming actresses, meets Manuela as Sister...

Author: By Nikki Usher, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Almodóvar in Love...With Mom? | 12/3/1999 | See Source »

...they still snicker every time they pass by in the yard. You've become something of a school-wide joke; you're the fool who scribbled "symbolism," "why?" and "interesting" on every page of To Kill a Mockingbird. Take a tip, my friend: Mend your ways. Lose the hi-liter. The rest of us are laughing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: To Underline or Not to Underline | 9/30/1999 | See Source »

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