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...definitely a downer,” Vance says.“Last year, I thought that I was going to get to play shortstop, then I rip my shoulder and now it’s, ‘We’ll see.’ But that’s how Coach has done...
...eating past seven pm? Not these men. These are the men who have protein shakes—before they start eating. These are the men who stay up late, waiting for the pizza delivery guy with the two large pizzas. These are the men who look like they could rip a phonebook in half and then eat it for a snack. These men are Harvard’s linemen. And for them, with the simple goal of protecting the quarterback or opening holes for the running back comes another objective: being big. Real big.A typical Harvard lineman is around...
...closing the windows and the blinds—keep annoying exes out by closing your eyes and pretending you don’t hear the pounding at your door. 7) Wage a war on energy leaks. Assignment one: Kick down next door neighbor’s door and rip out his alarm clock from the socket. Apparently polite Post-Its about his blaring alarm are ineffective. 8) Get a dining hall dog to help with the no-potato-left-behind effort. 9) Shut off your computer when you go to sleep. For real, the screen saver doesn?...
Snyder, 40, cut his teeth on high-concept, effects-heavy TV commercials. He made his feature debut in 2004 with a feather-light, razor-sharp remake of the zombie classic Dawn of the Dead. (Rent it just for the opening credits, where zombies rip various cities to pieces as Johnny Cash sings When the Man Comes Around.) Snyder is something of a dork. Only a dork--the finest, most discriminating of dorks--would have read 300 in the first place. When Mat made The 300 Spartans, he packed up his cameras and his actors and his caterers and went...
Recently, that wound threatened to rip open. One evening in December, thousands of protesters from the Shi'ite Muslim group Hizballah and other factions threatened to storm the gates of the Sérail, calling the Western-backed Siniora a traitor for allegedly undermining Hizballah during its war with Israel four months earlier. Only a week before, masked gunmen had assassinated one of Siniora's Cabinet colleagues, Industry Minister Pierre Gemayel. For hours, nobody knew if the mob would overwhelm the guards, enter the building, drag Siniora and his ministers from office - and perhaps ignite a new civil...