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...gone 41 to his son's 43. As played by the 6 ft. 5 in. (2m) James Cromwell, Poppy Bush looms over W. (and W.) as a commanding, commandeering figure. According to the film, he's the master manipulator who sprang Dubya from jail after a rowdy Yale prank, "took care of" a woman his son didn't want to marry and "pulled strings" to get the boy into Harvard Business School. He hates the damage W. has done to the family name: "Partying, chasing tail, driving drunk. What do you think you are - a Kennedy...
...again,” HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano said in an e-mailed statement. After HUPD investigated the incident, Catalano said they determined that no criminal activity had occurred. Boston media picked up on the story this weekend and local TV station WBZTV attributed the incident to a prank by anthropology students. But regarding the goat remains, HUPD said it currently has “no further details.” Daniel E. Lieberman, an anthropology professor and head tutor of biological anthropology at the College, said he had not been aware of last weekend’s goat...
...special kiosks in cafeterias and dorms. Each student gets a RecycleBank card and takes their recycling to the closest kiosk, where they swipe their card, weigh their recycling and claim their points. The campus model required a little tweaking on Gonen's part - the dorm kiosks, he notes, are prank-proof (you can douse them in beer, and they'll still work) - but it's been an early success at Columbia, where school officials are happy for any way to green their university. "Columbia recycles, but there's always room for improvement," says Nilda Mesa, Columbia's assistant vice president...
...elderly man who is suffering from dementia, and he thinks his dead wife is talking to him; his daughter is spending evenings walking in circles around a pool with a sick baby whale, helping to rehabilitate it; her son may or may not have pulled a huge prank on his school; there’s a violin prodigy who may or may not have lost his gift. I’m eager to find out how it ends.15.FM: So you’ve been a professional skateboarder, an award-winning author, and a Harvard professor. What gets you the most...
...leave the table to check on the lamb, he puts extra bacon on my pasta. He's doing impressions-Pat O'Brien confusedly reporting outside Clooney's Como villa, expecting Pitt and Jolie's wedding (Clooney had bought $1,500 worth of flowers and 15 tabletops as a prank on gossip reporters); James Carville denigrating John Kerry's campaigning skills; Daniel Day-Lewis doing John Huston in There Will Be Blood...