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...Chaplin to Hitchcock, "unpopular" was not a badge of pride for movies but rather a sign that they were somehow flawed. Now, of course, we have two contenders: in that corner, weighing in at $100 or $200 million, are "blockbusters" like Armageddon; and in this corner are the 98-pound weaklings of the film industry, "independent" movies like Gods and Monsters. From the former we can expect special effects, saccharine plots and Bruce Willis; while from the latter we can expect intellectual affects, subtle plots and a British actor who just finished a run in a critically acclaimed drama...
Clarkson will seek to add to Harvard's list of blowout defeats with a deep, fearsome attack led by fowards Eric Cole, Matt Reid, and Ben Maidment. Defensemen Philippe Roy and 6'3 215-pound Willie Mitchell provide a scoring threat from the blueline...
...hammer... A woman who sat in front of BOB VILA on an airline flight is seeking $127,000 from the world's most famous handyman for pain and mental anguish. Carol Berger claims that Vila, host of Home Again, took a break from pounding dry wall to pound the back of her seat with his foot and fist during a flight from Denver to Eugene, Ore. She didn't mention why. Vila issued a statement calling the allegation "baseless" and says he has never met Berger. Maybe he was just annoyed that her seat and tray table were...
...legislation to phase out price supports for a cornucopia of agricultural products, raw sugar was spared. Through a combination of loan guarantees and tariffs on imported sugar, domestic farmers like the Fanjuls are shielded from real-world prices. So in the U.S., raw sugar sells for about $22 a pound, more than double the price most of the world pays. The cost to Americans: at least $1.4 billion in the form of higher prices for candy, soda and other sweet things of life. A GAO study, moreover, has estimated that nearly half the subsidy goes to large sugar producers like...
...Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) can help you accept your body the way it is naturally. No more post-burrito binge guilt [vol.10,no.3] after anorexia/bulimia peer counseling in Quincy F basement, Sunday though Thursday 8-11pm. Before panicking and running to the Ganache Caf for a pound of chocolate truffles [vol.10,no.2] contact ECHO's hotline, nightly...