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...screaming wildly. Directed by Marc Forster (“Finding Neverland”), “Stranger Than Fiction” centers on Harold Crick (Ferrell), an obsessive-compulsive workaholic who suddenly discovers that his life is being narrated by the voice of British novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson).Needless to say, it’s a rather upsetting situation, especially when Eiffel announces Crick’s “imminent” death. From there, the plot proceeds predictably as Harold strives to live his life to the fullest and, of course, bag the girl of his dreams...
...million lives a year, you might think, is a cause with which politicians and movie stars would fall over themselves to be associated. But tackling diarrhea has never had the high profile of other public-health crises. There's much to do; though experts know what interventions can reduce needless deaths, getting them in place is not always easy. There are thousands of villages in places such as Bangladesh's muddy delta and the dry northern expanses of Ethiopia that still lack the infrastructure, education and methods of treatment that would protect their children's lives. To be sure, there...
...Slap” is on the David Banner blues-rap tip, and it’s about time more popular rappers started ripping him off—you can’t go wrong with those wailing guitars and that invincible clap-stomp beat. Oh, and needless to say, Pimp C and C-Murder destroy your face with their verses on “Do Your Time,” a jail-rap track which, ironically, eclipses everything else on the 62-minute prison sentence that is this album. The rest of the album isn’t worth reporting?...
...right price. The best way to do so is to have an auction. Unpalatable, perhaps, but certainly preferable to the status quo. Harvard already more or less sells admission to a select few, but the process is clothed in a variety of face-saving guises, all of them needlessly inefficient. Legacy preference, for example, gives the children of alumni what the admissions office website calls “a further look.” This keeps alumni happy, and ideally generous, and gives the college a way to sell places to the children of (some of) the super wealthy without...
...getting now is an entire generation of young women in a post-feminist era in which the Playboy brand back in the 1970s was perceived in some quarters as chauvinist, is now viewed as a form of empowerment for young women, which was unthinkable for me 20 years ago. Needless to say I think that is wonderful because I always from the very beginning felt that the sexual revolution was for everybody and that women were the major beneficiaries of it because women traditionally were kept in a sexual bondage by our historical attitudes...