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...different ending, the no-star antique war drama 300 triumphed at the box office last weekend. Director Zack Snyder's adaptation of the graphic novel by Frank Miller (Sin City) pulled in $70.9 million, the highest domestic gross for a movie released in March, and third best for an R-rated film. Since sword-and-sandal epics tend to do much bigger business abroad (Gladiator 59% of its theatrical take, Troy 73%), the upside for 300 is enormous...
...More potent similarities can be found between 300 and the R-rated film with the all-time highest opening-weekend gross. Consider: It's the beyond-bloody saga of an ancient king who leads a high-minded rebellion against a corrupt hierarchy, who endures extraordinary physical abuse before dying nobly, and whose name has been praised throughout history. In other words, 300 is The Passion of the Christ...
...Ashley M. Mannetta ’09 and Elizabeth R. Shope ’09, co-chairs of the group Sustainable Allston, have striven to implement their vision of an eco-friendly campus since their arrival in Cambridge. Both environmental science and public policy concentrators, the two seem united in their efforts to attain sustainability. But during their interview with FM, Shope was suprised to hear that her co-chair is also a sophomore...
...study released by a Harvard Medical School (HMS) affiliate. Past research has found that diabetic women are two to five times more likely than women with normal blood sugar levels to have babies with birth defects. In the recent study, which was conducted on mice, HMS associate professor Mary R. Loeken and her colleagues at the Joslin Diabetes Center identified the expression of the glucose transporter Glut2 early in embryonic development as a factor in this disparity. However, because Glut2 is necessary for the health of both embryo and mother, Loeken said that a treatment blocking Glut2 is not viable...
...Gary R. Goldstein, a professor in the physics and astronomy department, wrote a message to Tufts University President Lawrence S. Bacow expressing his disapproval...