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...mark heading into the Ivy-only portion of the season, the absence of the Bears and the Crimson has become one of the biggest stories of the young Ivy season. Harvard’s loss of most of its first- and second-team offense and its penchant for spotting its opponents five or six turnovers have turned the league bully into the whipping...
...could cook and hug and talk and do everything at the same time,” Crowe says, floored by her presence in the kitchen. It’s these sorts of touches that endow the film with genuine Southern charisma and display Crowe’s penchant for detail. “Elizabethtown” signifies a return to more familiar territory for Crowe, whose last film, the 2001 science-fiction adaptation “Vanilla Sky,” was a dramatic departure in material and style: Crowe is an autonomous craftsman who has both written and directed...
Kelly’s penchant for absurd plot construction, which won over college-aged cult fans in “Donnie Darko,” simply serves to overcomplicate an already thinly stretched concept. At the unnecessary and melodramatic sexuality between Domino and Choco (Domino was actually bisexual), a plot twist involving Afghani liberation, and the segment on “The Jerry Springer Show,” one can’t help but think: “What the hell was the point of that? Go back to showing half-naked Keira shooting Vietnamese thugs...
...uniformly every year with a massive Harvard victory, the character of the celebration surrounding The Game depends heavily on the venue. In New Haven, Yale and local police have successfully positioned themselves to encourage responsible, safe drinking without resorting to draconian tactics. In Allston, the BPD’s penchant for rabid enforcement has only succeeded in making the event more unsafe. In the wake of the 2004 Harvard-Yale tailgate in Allston—a comparative success in anyone’s eyes except those of BPD Captain William B. Evans—the BPD threatened...
...suggestions: Should the party offer a welcome to asylum seekers instead of shunning them? Should top Tories pledge not to send their children to private schools? A more mainstream notion was to shift the party's focus to the problems of the poor, hoping to attract young people whose penchant for issue-oriented wristbands was cited as proof that politics is not dying. But no coherent set of policies beyond mutters of "compassionate conservatism" was on offer. ? THEY HAVEN'T GOT A HOT LEADER - YET. The Tory image should sharpen when a new man takes charge in December. The party...