Word: rachel
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...must have seemed like a good idea: take a familiar tale—the Santa Claus story—and breathe some life into it by means of talented actors. Cast box office king Vince Vaughn as the protagonist, throw in a little Paul Giamatti, Kathy Bates, and Rachel Weisz to add some Oscar cred, and get Kevin Spacey to play the villain. You’ve gotta get Spacey to play the villain. The man put Gwyneth Paltrow’s head in a box in “Se7en,” so he’s sure...
...Officer Lockstock, presented a range of tone and physical comedy that filled the room and carried the show. As narrator, Shields’ unctuous tenor and bawdy gestures sweetened the tone of the show’s uriniferous notes. Other highlight performances included that of Rachel E. Flynn ’09 as Penelope Pennywise, the coin-collecting bathroom bouncer. Her hysterical intonations and clear voice commanded the stage and provided dazzling comedy...
...path to peace. The film outwardly focuses on a suicide bombing that took place in Kiryat HaYovel, Israel in 2002. One September morning, an 18-year-old Palestinian girl, Ayat al-Akhras blew herself up in a market, taking the life of a 17-year-old Jerusalemite, Rachel Levy. The similarities between the girls were eerie. Their appearances were so alike that after the bombing, body parts could not be easily matched to their owners; both girls were excellent students; both were normal teenagers. But one chose to end her life early. Rachel’s mother, Avigail Levy, asks...
...impossible to predict how many Asians will become addicted as their access to gambling increases, but "there are going to be victims," says Rachel Volberg, a U.S.-based sociologist and an expert in gambling addiction. Volberg was one of the authors of a 1999 study examining the impact of gambling in the U.S. that found the presence of venues such as casinos and horse-racing tracks roughly doubles the incidence of problem and pathological gambling in the surrounding community within a range of 50 miles (80 km). Throughout the world, Volberg says, the introduction of gambling typically results...
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Rachel L. Greenblatt is skeptical of the suggestion that having an ethnicity-based interest in a certain department precludes meaningful study of that field. “For the majority of heritage students, is the concentration really so close to their background?” she says. “For example, there are very few Jewish families in America speaking Hebrew and Yiddish at home today—so I don’t think that Jewish students focusing on Jewish Studies are repeating things that they learned at home...