Word: nc
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...days of being the darkhorse and taking inspiration from David and Goliath are over for the Harvard women's basketball team. The image of the underdog made famous by the Amazing Mets of 1969, NC State's NCAA basketball title in 1983 and Doug Flutie's Hail Mary pass against Miami in 1984 are now images to fear for a team that has exceeded all expectations...
...Star Wars and Indiana Jones, more cinematic cachet. And while no one sneers at the Baker Street Irregulars, noninitiates consider Trekkies to be pretty odd: Trekkies like Pete Mohney, a computer programmer in Birmingham, Alabama, who leads a double life as captain of his local Starfleet "ship," the Hephaestus NC-2004, and publisher of a 40-page Trekkie newsletter; or Jerry Murphy, a Sugar Grove, Illinois, business manager and father of two, who is commander of a local Klingon club and frequently dresses up as one of the big-browed aliens for charity events. "Nobody messes with Klingons," he says...
Although it contains no explicit sex or violence, "Clerks" was originally rated NC-17 based solely on its language...
...movie's rating was changed to R after Miramax and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz successfully contested the NC-17 rating, calling it "the kiss of death...
Smith said the incident helped to publicize the film because "in the same week we got the NC-17, 'Natural Born Killers...