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...wage worker cuts. The resolution that came before the Council proposed an economic stimulus package in which the City of Cambridge would exempt Harvard from its payment in lieu of taxes (PILOT). The resolution’s sponsor, Counsellor Marjorie C. Decker, said that the resolution is a symbolic method to highlight the absurdity of the layoffs. At the last Council meeting, Decker said she thought this type of gesture would shame Harvard into halting layoffs of low-wage workers. Alyssa M. Aguilera ’08-09, a member of the Student Labor Action Movement, spoke during the public...
...Using a method that measures gasses emitted by small tremors, Giuliani, it turns out, was partially right. A much smaller seismic shift struck on the day he said it would, with the truly disastrous one arriving just one week later. "Someone owes me an apology," Giuliani, who is also a resident of L'Aquila, told reporters on Monday. "The situation here is dramatic. I am devastated but also angry...
Wondering how they got that tiny actor to cry so convincingly on cue? Well, his mother actually did abandon him in a crowd and he really did think he was lost. The people walking past him are extras, and his tears are real. Heartless? Maybe. Forced method acting? Sure. The admakers "went to incredible lengths to make this as good of an experience as possible," says Jenna Mandel-Ricci, of the New York City Health Department's Tobacco Control Bureau. She points out that the commercial was filmed in one take - meaning the little boy went through the trauma...
...wants his fans to consider if his work is revelatory or predatory, and to ask, just a little, "Is he nuts?" Indeed, so fervid is the actor's belief in the cleansing power of confrontational comedy, so extreme is his commitment to the characters he plays - he's a Method farceur, a Daniel Day-Lewis with a sadistic sense of humor - that I wouldn't be surprised if Brüno did go backdoor with that guy, on camera. (The actor could tell his fiancée, actress Isla Fisher, that he was just being true to the process...
...case of the so-called Octomom continues to spur outrage and debate over the use of in vitro fertilization (IVF) in the U.S., new research suggests that the most effective and inexpensive IVF method may also be the least likely to result in dangerous multiple births...