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...writers can flesh out characters they could only sketch in the initial film. Any critic could name a fistful of follow-ups that outshone originals: The Bride of Frankenstein; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Road Warrior; Aliens; Batman Returns. In TV, improving with age is the norm: a good sitcom, whether Mary Tyler Moore or South Park, ripens in its third or fourth season. Films used to be about drastic change, TV about the status quo. Now both bestow on their characters a steady evolution. A lot like growing...
...spot on. Periodontal disease is rife in cats and dogs, affecting 85% of those over three years old. Further, the A.V.A. acknowledges that a diet of mainly "soft foods" could "favor development" of periodontal disease and recommends giving bones at least once a week. A.V.A. national president Dr. Norm Blackman says that while Lonsdale's e-mail was "mischievous in the extreme . . . Tom has contributed quite a lot to veterinary science." Others go further. "I believe he's a visionary," says Dr. Richard Malik, the veterinary specialist at the University of Sydney's Post Graduate Foundation in Veterinary Science. Malik...
...industry too often doomed by technical sloppiness and a numbing lack of originality. Unusually for Bollywood, where directors often turn out five movies a year, Akhtar took more than two years to bring the script and music (both by his father, Javed) to the screen. Breaking with the norm again, Akhtar insisted on a continuous 146-day shoot so that cast and crew would focus on one project alone, instead of juggling several movies at a time, often on the same day, as is routine in the industry. And by shooting on location rather than on dodgy sets, by employing...
...horror stories about the mental health response of House tutors and senior tutors who have ignored cries for help, failed to uphold confidentiality and mistreated friends and roommates of students suffering from mental health problems. While I have to assume, and desperately hope, that these stories are not the norm, a mental health professional in each House would be far superior to what we have now. Anything else leaves students short changed...
...according to council data, Harvard’s Undergraduate Council fee falls well below the norm. Stanford University, Northeastern University and Boston College all have annual fees around the $100 mark, while Dartmouth College and Boston University have fees of $450 and $414 respectively...