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Johnny Depp returns with director Tim Burton! Johnny Depp gets to murder people with much splatter! Johnny Depp sings! Let's face it, the curiosity meter on this one is turned to 11. And it was even before Depp got poliosis (that's the medical term for that goofy white forelock he's sporting...
Annie Schumake stands outside her one-story house in the depressed city of Richmond, Calif., just north of Oakland, and watches her electric meter slow to a crawl, stop and then begin to tick backward. Schumake's solar panel, just installed on her roof and partly financed with low-cost loans from the city, is supplying free power and more. The panel was put in by a team of local workers trained by area nonprofit groups that prepare unemployed Richmondites for jobs in the burgeoning green building field. "I'm happy because I'm saving money," says Schumake...
...places. This weekend, however, the Crimson swimmers touched the wall first in 12 of 16 races, allowing Harvard to cruise to an easy victory over the Lions. The Crimson divers wasted no time in putting Harvard on the scoreboard, as senior Lucas Sanders won both the one- and three-meter events with scores of 290.85 and 276.15, respectively. Freshman Zac Ranta took second place in both events. Armed with diving depth it has not had in the last few years, the Crimson has six divers this year to back up the consistent Sanders. The 200 medley team built...
...while Clarke took the 500-yard freestyle in 4:59.64. The Crimson saw an additional win come from Hart, who swam the 100-yard backstroke in 58.61. Senior Samantha Papadakis, who is also a member of the Crimson’s sports board, won both the one- and three-meter diving events, earning 18 points for the team. “Columbia came out fighting, and it was fun,” Hart said. “I think it showed that our team, even when we’re down, can come back. It showed everyone that Harvard?...
...novel into an English film is a very difficult task: the translation can easily render a beautifully poetic line in Spanish as corny in English. GarcĂa Márquez’s writing makes this translation even more difficult. His prose is known for its detail, harmonious meter, and subtle humor—rarely do any of these attributes make it to the big screen. Undoubtedly, this becomes the film’s tragic flaw. The film would have been profoundly better in its native language, where direct quotes could have been used, and more of the novel?...