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Finally, a movie for all the squares who wish they had cut loose when they were in college. In Spring Breakdown, PARKER POSEY, AMY POEHLER and RACHEL DRATCH play straitlaced thirtysomethings who whoop it up with the popular crowd when they're supposed to be chaperoning a conservative Senator's daughter. "It's Revenge of the Nerds meets Nine to Five," Poehler says of the film, which fellow Saturday Night Live star Dratch produced and co-wrote. In the name of research, the cast did a lot of late-night partying, which doesn't do much for your adulthood cred...
...this is not exactly crystal clear throughout the movie. While Tomas (Hugh Jackman in 16th-century form) fights Mayan warriors in his quest to find the Fountain of Youth, Tommy (21st-century Jackman) races against time to find a cure for his wife’s (Rachel Weisz) fatal cancer, and Tom (26th-century Jackman) meditates on the meaning of life as he floats towards Xibalba, a nebula/mythical Mayan underworld. If this sounds a bit trippy, rest assured, it is. But, there is something deliciously intriguing about the story, even if the clichéd search for the Fountain...
...eliminate these costs. UC member Amadi P. Anene ’08 emphasized reducing the cost of course books, which he said averages $600 per semester. “Such a one-time financial hit for low income students can be very, very tough,” Anene said. Rachel A. Culley ’07, a self-described low income student who attended the event, said that buying her course books has proved difficult each semester. Noting that her parents do not pay for her books, Culley said she often does not purchase textbooks...
...Rachel Corrie deserves to be remembered as another tragic casualty in a war that has consumed so many lives, not as the idealized heroic freedom fighter that “My Name is Rachel Corrie” presents her to be. It is only when those on both sides of the conflict can shed this kind of misplaced idealization that a true peace settlement will be possible...
...Riley’s favorite flair. Rosier decked himself out in a tight white tank top, a close-fitting aquamarine jacket, and a hot pink coat—which, he said, was meant to mimic Andrea R. Flores ’10. —Staff writer Rachel Banks can be reached at banks@fas.harvard.edu...