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...community. For each dollar that House Councils spend on big parties, they lose a dollar that would otherwise benefit their immediate constituents in the form of Happy Hours, Stein Clubs, or House formals. Mather House, and a few other party-centric Houses, are victims of a campus-wide free rider problem...
KITT, the car from Knight Rider, is up for auction. Bids on the '82 Trans Am (one of four used on camera) start at $150K. But what of its '80s TV brothers in Armor...
...crash...") But there's not much poetry, I mean of the pulp variety, in Death Proof. It doesn't show me much innovation, or much fidelity to the old grindhouse tropes. For example, in the seminal road movies of the late '60s and early '70s - Bonnie and Clyde, Easy Rider, Vanishing Point, Dirty Mary Crazy Larry - all those careening, careering antiheroes ended up dead. They paid for their vitality with their fatality. But Tarantino won't go that extra mile, at least in the second half of his escapade. He wants his crashes without the body count...
...Mongkok, on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong harbor-and one of the most densely populated tracts of land on the planet-Rex Lau, 37, who is working in a bicycle-repair shop, echoes the sentiment. "Donald Tsang is doing okay," he allows. But then he adds a rider. "But he basically listens to what people in China want. It's like you have a say, but you don't really...
...casual or commuting city rider to whom the bikes are pitched, however, small wheels are a plus, delivering a lower center of gravity and a stabler ride. What's more, the low profile means it's easier to hop on and off or to balance at stoplights, and the light weight makes accelerating easier. Finally, even the cleverest urban thief won't be able to pinch your ride if you can just fold it up and take it inside when you reach your destination...