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...which I mean, at what point in movie history did the small American city cease to be represented as a cozy, leafy place preoccupied by ice cream socials, sweetly goofy teenage romances and Ford roadsters decorated with funny ("Oh you kid") slogans? When did the bleakness and perpetually bad weather set in? When did it become the poisonous appendix of our body politic, the place where the dopers and drinkers, the dismal and the dysfunctional, collect to dream of the escapes they never quite manage...
Economists are quick to point out that a weak dollar doesn't necessarily mean a strong yen. The exchange rate of the yen to other currencies - such as the euro - still shows depreciation. But the dollar-yen pair heavily weights consumer sentiment and the stock market, says Takahide Kiuchi, chief economist at Nomura Securities, and the rate right now has an overall negative affect...
...League men’s basketball despite Tommy Amaker’s new recruits. Harvard’s mission is best served by striving for excellence while still satisfying the constraint that its athletic teams have the best academic credentials within their sport. Ivy rules additionally ensure that the mean Academic Index of Harvard’s athletic program will be within one standard deviation of the student body and that all student-athletes will meet a minimum Academic Index standard. Harvard athletic programs such as women’s hockey, which has achieved No. 1 national rankings in five...
...accused of not caring about the trial, and then I realize that I don’tcare about the trial. That makes me sort of a crappy person.RR: When’s the last time you were really angry?DC: I’m a pretty mellow person. I mean, I’m not wearing my tie-dye today, butI’m a pretty mellow person. I don’t really get too angry too often. But I was prettyangry when my friend Ryan stole my cat. I haven’t seen the cat or Ryan...
...really liked the idea of playingsomebody who was a flawed mother,”she said. “I think it was an uncomfortablecharacter, but very real. There aremothers out there who just aren’t goodmothers, and that doesn’t mean we haveto judge them.”Theron said she wanted to give a voiceto someone like Joleen, who is a type ofwoman she feels is rarely featured on thebig screen. “We want women to be eitherthe Madonna or the whore: you’re eitherthe great nurturer or you?...