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Ocean’s Eleven is a film that does not deserve a remake. The 1960 original featured the Rat Pack and an extended rodent family in a plot to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one New Year’s Eve heist. Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Peter Lawford and company used the production as a vehicle to continue on the screen what was their mantra in real life: boozing, gambling and chasing women. Juvenile, meandering and amateurish to a fault, the original film contained so few redemptive elements that only the most dedicated of audiences...
...College well, there are other, very good reasons for graduate schools to move across the river. In Cambridge, the graduate schools face the same crunch that everyone else does—lack of space for faculty offices, student housing and classrooms. In order to convince the schools to pack their bags for Allston, the University must be willing to make these Cambridge liabilities into Allston incentives by guaranteeing enough money to make an attractive Allston campus a reality. Brand new buildings, expanded working and living space and a lush, attractive campus would sweeten the bitter pill of moving...
...league traditionally dominated by Princeton and Penn, Harvard finds itself in the middle of the pack. Brown and Columbia both have candidates for Player of the Year: Bears guard Earl Hunt may be the top player in the league and the Lions’ Craig Austin is last year’s award winner. Harvard may not have an individual to compare with those two, but as a unit they should be able to make some noise...
Students returning home for Thanksgiving were warned to expect increased security at airports. The evening news advised air travelers to arrive at the airport two hours early and not to pack anything—tweezers, nail scissors, knitting needles—that could be considered a weapon in their carry-on baggage. We anticipated this increased airport security. It was the measures we weren’t warned about that came as a surprise...
...misleading, as anyone who's ridden a Segway can attest. Just ask Jeff Bezos. On a rainy morning in Seattle recently, Bezos dropped in at a meeting between Kamen, his team and a pair of Amazon execs. The meeting was being held in an Amazon "pick and pack" facility--a warehouse in which employees pick stock from shelves and pack it in boxes for shipment to customers. Kamen had come to sell Amazon some Segways by demonstrating that they would, as Bezos put it, "improve our picking productivity...