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America needs its hairy heroes (maybe not Robin Williams), and George Lucas is obliging. It has been 20 years since CHEWBACCA appeared in a new Star Wars movie, but Han Solo's faithful, fur-covered sidekick will return for a small part in Episode III, which starts production this summer in Australia. Peter Mayhew, the 7-ft. 3-in. English actor who donned the Wookiee suit for the first three Star Wars films--and has been signing autographs at conventions ever since--will again play the brawny warrior from the planet Kashyyyk. Lucas has said that Episode...
Saturday and Sunday’s early racing in wet, windy conditions seemed to suit Harvard just fine, and the team finished the round robin a perfect 11-0. Sunday afternoon’s final four double round robin featured four teams—Tufts, Harvard, Dartmouth and Boston College. The Crimson went 4-2 on the afternoon, a record which ultimately cost Harvard the win over the 5-1 Jumbos...
...People love the independent bookstores in Harvard Square,” says Robin A. Lapidus, executive director of the Harvard Square Business Association. “They’re an essential thread in the fabric of this community...
...second of the round-robin opening matches proved to be a Pyrrhic victory for Harvard, as the team avenged an early-season defeat at the hands of Bucknell, but lost one of its stars in the process when sophomore Teresa Codini broke her right index finger...
...doubtless a well-intentioned attempt to defend what he saw as an attack on constitutionally-guaranteed property rights, his case, Brown v. Legal Foundation of Washington, endangered legal services for the poor. In his dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia called the IOLTA program a “Robin Hood taking”—“taking from the rich to give to indigent defendants.” But since the “rich” experience no loss, Scalia’s accusation is baseless. What Fried proposed the court do—take from the poor...