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...academic pursuit, and should conform to academic, moral, and ethical standards,” Isaza-Figueroa said. “What she did was not mentally or physically healthy, for her or the people around her.” Yale students expressed surprise and disgust at Shvarts’ mode of artistic expression. “My initial reaction was on par with everyone else’s,” said Yale freshman Laura Gonzales. “I was appalled and shocked. Both sides of the abortion debate are against it.” Uncertainty about the facts...
...will pay for. "You can't just make it a standard product," he says. He wants to give them, and his employees, something different, something memorable. So the Australian staff who've flown 19 hours for a press conference get their treat at sundown: Branson in full celebrity mode on the roof of the Hollywood Roosevelt hotel. Reclining like a pasha on an upholstered banquette, he downs champagne and chats up Daryl Hannah and an 18-year-old aspiring actress-environmentalist named Zelda Williams. He seems to enjoy himself but leaves the party early. He's got a plane...
...laugh track was grating, and some elements just didn’t work (Ambrose’s character needed some development, and fast). But for all of its problems, “Jezebel James” was an engaging screwball piece in the “Gilmore” mode, and many of its fast and furious lines made me laugh out loud. (Posey to Ambrose: “This is a co-op [apartment building], and we’re all in this together, so you have to be nice to everyone. Oh, not her, though, we all hate...
...morph into Cro Magnons with no opportunity for rest amidst the continual need to hunt and gather their own meals. It goes without saying that the do-it-yourself ethos of Fire & Ice precludes exposure to new cuisine or involved conversation among dining groups, making primitive grunts the optimal mode of communication. The restaurant does, however, differ from Stone Age eateries in one critical way: where Cro Magnon man had no need for currency, Fire & Ice demands all too much of it.—Columnists Aliza H. Aufrichtig and Marianne F. Kaletzky can be reached at aufricht@fas.harvard.edu and kaletzky@fas.harvard.edu...
...kill each other when it's over," says Jackie Chan as the Drunken Master Lu Yan to Jet Li's Silent Monk in the new Asian-American fantasy film The Forbidden Kingdom. But when these honored veterans of Hong Kong martial-arts movies get into fighting mode, it's an open question as to whether they'll survive till the end of the shoot. (Chan ends each of his films with gruesome outtakes of the injuries he suffered doing his stunts.) For all the safety precautions taken, the two stars still have to give every fiber of their disciplined, battered...