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...require smallish casts and in the dreariness of their first shots signal seriousness of intent. I don't care if we're talking No Country for Old Men or the more recent, low-budget hopelessness of Snow Angels - the seasoned moviegoer settles in for a long trek in a pickup truck, stopping only for depressed meals in dubious diners, trailer park sleepovers and a touch of concluding violence...
...kosher but a bright idea to improve a moribund program.Violations of NCAA regulations are a different story. The anecdotes included in Thamel’s article, the one about Blakeney in particular, are distressing. The piece describes Blakeney, who played at Duke when Amaker was an assistant there, playing pickup games and developing friendly relationships with a pair of recruits in the months before he was hired to join Amaker’s staff. Both of the recruits, Max Kenyi and Keith Wright, were eventually wooed to commit to the Crimson and confirmed their meetings with Blakeney in the story...
...Athletic Association rules.”The article stated that current assistant coach Kenny Blakeney had recruited Norfolk, Va. basketball player Keith Wright and Washington, D.C. star Max Kenyi to attend Harvard prior to being hired to Amaker’s staff. According to the article, Blakeney participated in pickup basketball games with both players last summer before he was hired by the Crimson on July 2, 2007 and recruiting for an institution by a person not employed by the school is considered a violation of NCAA rules. Both players have committed to attend Harvard next year, and the Times...
...event which, at the very least, sure beat deciphering scenes from “0” with your English 120 TF. The theme of the show was “Courses of True Love: Comic and Tragedy,” and even Shakespeare novices could appreciate the Elizabethan pickup lines. FM suggests that the next time you’re at the Delphic, try quoting Benedict (Samuel L. Linden ’10) from Much Ado About Nothing to get some action: “The world must be peopled!” Obviously Harvard students need some help...
...Saturday and nearly noon in Bidor, Malaysia, a small rural town about 160 km north of the nation?s capital, Kuala Lumpur. The coffee shops are filling up with people, mostly rubber and oil palm farmers, many of whom roar into town in new Toyota and Ford pickup trucks. These small farmers are in a jolly mood. With commodities prices at highs not seen in generations, many are prospering to a degree that would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. The incomes of small landowners almost tripled between 2004 and 2007, according to government data. Some farmers...