Word: lowerings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...reveal what happens, except to say that by the end both stars are utterly humiliated, and that the final victim is...the viewer. I wouldn't necessarily put this film in the atrocity category of a lower-I.Q. torture exercise like Captivity. But if you consider what the exalted quartet of Branagh, Pinter, Caine and Law might have done with the project, and what they did to it, Sleuth has to be the worst prestige movie of the year...
...freeze on UC funds in response to the UC’s intransigence, there is a silver lining. Now that the UC has proven willing to act in open defiance of the administration, surely we can expect it to mobilize with the same force to campaign for lower textbook costs for low-income students or to persuade the University to adopt more socially responsible investment policies. Perhaps in the future, the UC will save its political capital for campus advocacy that matters rather than petty fights over students’ rights to get drunk for free...
...annually. “Anything that we can do to increase energy efficiency within our buildings is being investigated and employed,” said Anthony J. Pacillo, manager of freshman dormitories. But some students maintain the increase in efficiency is coming at the cost of lower water pressure. “The pressure is really bad, a lot worse than it was before,” said Samantha F. Drago ’11, a resident of Pennypacker. And Greenough resident Michael J. Ding ’11 said his entire room is dissatisfied with the new showerheads. However...
USAGE With surveys indicating that only half of Americans 50 and older get colonoscopies as often as they should, doctors hope the less daunting--not to mention lower-priced--test will attract more adherents. But some unpleasantries remain: the exam, which uses a tiny tube to inflate the colon, still entails drinking oodles of laxatives...
...revised standard look all the smarter. "There is still a lot of controversy about the trigger," says Dr. Lynne Uhl, a transfusion specialist at Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital in Boston. "But the growing data have reinforced the practice that it's O.K. to let the patient's hematocrit drop lower before transfusing...