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...Comedy Be Cutting-Edge? Aspiring filmmakers used to cut their teeth on R-rated horror movies; it was a genre that allowed them to show their skills of cinematic technique and audience manipulation (get 'em to scream). But with Apatovian buddy farce currently triumphant, more tyros are turning to R-rated comedy (get 'em to laugh). Here timing, not technique, is required: creating a vibe, working with actors, building a scene, knowing the audience. It's less like movie auteuring than like staging a play, but that's all right. Every film comedy needs a director, and these days there...
...German towns and cities are appealing to the German government to bail them out. In March, a group of municipal authorities appealed to the Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau, or KfW, Germany's Marshall Fund-era state-owned bank for reconstruction and development, to buy out AIG and replace it as their credit insurer. The plan might work, but KfW is reluctant. "We are looking into the matter," a KfW spokeswoman says...
...modern federal income-tax structure in 1913. But for years personal-income-tax business for accountants remained a trickle--in 1918, only 5% of Americans earned enough to file returns. After the IRS cracked down on tax evaders in the 1950s, two Missouri brothers smelled opportunity and launched H&R Block, charging customers $5 each to make sure their returns were in order...
...Alexander R. Konrad ’11, a Crimson editorial writer, is a history concentrator in Quincy House...
...thanks to these strategies, Thomas R. Compton ’09, the cast vice president and Hades Pantsaretight, the promiscuous yet possibly impotent lord of the underworld, claims that despite the long run, the show never loses its edge...