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North America isn't the only place where people buy movie tickets. Just as much money is to be had abroad, and there the big hits were Harry Potter 6 and ... huh?... Ice Age 3! The CGI comedy has earned a woolly-mammoth $614 million in foreign climes, $200 million more than Transformers and nearly five times as much as Up, which is just opening throughout much of Europe. That means you'll see more prehistoric capers and sequels of all kinds, since the international audience is even more conservative than the American. Black ink for the movie business...
HerCampus has declined to accept the $5000 reward in investment money from HSA, since accepting the investment would give HSA an equity share of the company. However, HerCampus operates in an office provided by HSA, another reward from the I3 competition...
...work, where Larry is up for tenure, a Korean student to whom he gave a failing grade leaves him an envelope full of bribe money; when Larry refuses, the student's father drops by to say he may sue the professor for defamation. The neighbor on one side is a belligerent, moose-killing goy; on the other side is not threat but temptation in the form of a pretty woman (Amy Landecker) who smokes pot while sunbathing nude. Anything else? Larry's legal bills are piling up, he just crashed his car, he needs to visit his doctor...
...Harvard line caused quite considerable head-scratching in fashion and academic circles when it was announced in August. Naturally, there was snickering on Yale student websites, but that subsided after Harvard asserted that the money was going to fund scholarships for low-income students. What better reason to monetize its élite status than to admit students from outside the élite...
...dioxide (CO2), the tax on the use of oil, natural gas and coal would nudge up the cost of a liter of petrol by $0.06 ($0.23 a gallon), Sarkozy said, and diesel by a little more, helping generate roughly $4.4 billion in annual revenues. A pledge to return that money to taxpayers through various new rebates has so far failed to win over the public; two thirds of voters opposed the tax in a poll published by Paris Match days before the announcement. Denis Baupin, Paris's green deputy mayor, likened it to "treating a gravely ill patient with aspirin...