Word: minuses
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...Crimson surveyed 406 undergraduates over three days in a randomized telephone survey. The margin of error for the survey is plus or minus four percent, with a wider margin when responses are sorted by political affiliation...
Decidedly less sunny are the family men in The Mind of the Married Man (Sundays, 10 p.m. E.T.; preview 10 p.m. E.T. Tuesday, Sept. 11), successful Chicago journalists who fantasize about affairs (or just have them) and chafe under domestic responsibility. Think Sex and the City minus the Jimmy Choo shoes and cosmos but with an extra dose of dread. Bookended by two close friends, one philandering and the other henpecked, columnist Micky Barnes (creator-writer Mike Binder) fights temptation for his hot new assistant (Ivana Milicevic) while trying to do right by his hot wife (Sonya Walger). (The series...
...bodyguards. Though the investigation into the crash of the plane carrying R.-and-B. star Aaliyah is not complete, one thing is becoming certain: the twin-engine Cessna 402B was too heavy to fly. With a maximum weight limit of 6,300 lbs. for takeoff, the loaded plane minus the passengers weighed in, officials estimate, at 5,495 lbs., leaving just 805 lbs. of capacity for the pilot and eight others. One of them, Aaliyah's bodyguard, Scott Gallin, weighed 300 lbs. Unless the others weighed less than 63 lbs. each, their chances were slim...
...Kong is not quite dead, but it is bleeding. It badly needs leaders that can rally the community to accept short-term pain for long-term benefit. Otherwise, Hong Kong in 10 years' time won't be a "Manhattan," let alone its "Plus," but something more like a "Shanghai Minus...
...plug for his most lauded crime film. The Mission, which earned To last year's Hong Kong Film Award as best director, convened five gunmen as bodyguards for a powerful boss. Swift, spare and violent, with bullet ballets staged in deserted malls, the film played like The Seven Samurai (minus two) in Alphaville. It was another To essay on a man's dedication to the work ethic, no matter what line of work he's in. For cine-philes everywhere, The Mission offered proof that the Heroic Bloodshed genre had not died out with the emigration...