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Exactly what kind of learning goes on at the Blue School? This is a show, after all, whose appeal rests on an exuberant celebration of paint volcanoes, Twinkie force-feeding, amplified Cap'N Crunch--chomping and Jell-O-encased heads. It's so universally silly that Blue Man Groups currently thrive in eight cities, from Las Vegas to Tokyo to Basel, Switzerland. But like many other enterprises that sound funny and turn out to be incredibly earnest (recent Jim Carrey movies spring to mind), the Blue School is a very serious business...
...cotton to his motives early on, when he passes Camille, a former plaything, over to Bolivian strongman General Medrano (Joaquín Cosio). Turns out Camille, like Bond, has a score to settle: she has lost her mother and daughter to Medrano's depredations. This time, for both of them, it's personal; hero and heroine percolate silently, sulfurously, with vengeance scenarios that may somehow intersect. Kurylenko, a lovely Russian-Ukrainian hybrid who is oddly duskied up to look vaguely Latina, does an exemplary job raising the movie's temperature and luring Bond out of his shell...
...philanthrocapitalism n.--Also known as venture philanthropy. A business-like approach to charity USAGE: "Leading philanthrocapitalists are giving away unprecedented amounts of money--Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are together handing out about $3.5 billion a year through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." --NEW YORK TIMES...
...Staff writer Ahmed N. Mabruk can be reached at amabruk@fas.harvard.edu...
...These measures have allowed Harvard to compete with public institutions by often providing more generous financial aid. “Harvard was the best offer I got, actually,†said Ashlee N. Adams ’12, “Even with the financial aid offers I got from state schools in Texas, Harvard was still cheaper...