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There's a plot of sorts: the time is a few years hence, and the public-housing ghettos, petri dishes for the car-burning riots that traumatized Paris last fall, have been turned into official ghettos, requiring a pass to enter or leave and ruled by gangs. A guy named Leďto (David Belle) runs afoul of one of them, and his sister is abducted and enslaved by its comically malevolent leader (Bibi Naceri). Meanwhile, a WMD has gone missing somewhere in B13, and a cop named Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) makes common cause with Leďto to retrieve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Fun, French and Bloody | 5/28/2006 | See Source »

...contribute to the swamp that we call our room, this guy is definitely the primary reason we are living in an environment that Oscar the Grouch would envy. Given all the strange growths thriving in our room, it feels like we are living in God’s experimental Petri dish. If you prefer the freedom of walking around your room without tripping on a suitcase that hasn’t been unpacked since Thanksgiving break, try to avoid roommates like him.Enumerating all my roommates’ faults makes me wonder if they enjoy living with...

Author: By Eric A. Kester, | Title: Blocking with Blockheads | 3/9/2006 | See Source »

...which will be the building’s chief occupant, attempted to minimize fears about the lab, saying that the activity there would occur on a very “human scale.” The scientist walked residents through the basics of nanotechnology research, pulling empty beakers and petri dishes out of a gray toolbox to illustrate his presentation. The center will study the “novel” physical and chemical properties that emerge from particles in their smallest forms. Two members of the Cambridge Fire Department reassured residents that the University was following proper safety procedures...

Author: By Natalie I. Sherman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Agassiz Residents Raise Concerns About Storage of Flammable Chemicals Behind Science Center | 2/16/2006 | See Source »

Winthrop HoCo Chair Carrie H. Petri ’06, who is also a Crimson editor, said that while each House wanted to maintain its own sense of character, joint purchasing cut costs...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho and Nicole B. Urken, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERSS | Title: At Yale, Tailgates Proceed Largely Unimpeded | 11/21/2005 | See Source »

...year was the same thing. We’re hoping, but we really don’t have any idea.”Harvard will be hoping to hear its name called when the tournament bids are announced at 5 p.m. tonight.—Staff writer Carrie H. Petri can be reached at cpetri@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Carrie H. Petri, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Secures 11th Shutout of Season | 11/6/2005 | See Source »

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