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...even though we didn’t win it.” STAAKE TROPHY & METRO SERIES 6 Across the river, Harvard placed fourth out of six teams at the Staake Trophy team race hosted by Boston College. The team tied third-place MIT with a 5-5 round robin record, but lost to the Engineers in a sail-off tiebreaker. BC and Tufts were tied atop the leader board, but the hosts won in another sail-off to take the trophy. At the Metro Series 6 at Brandeis University, the Crimson took sixth overall. Junior skipper Robby McIntosh and freshman...

Author: By Emily W. Cunningham, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: National Championships Await Crimson | 5/2/2006 | See Source »

Over here on the left, fighting for the blue states, the Munro family: Bob (Robin Williams), Jamie (Cheryl Hines) and their disaffected offspring. They are, as you might imagine, oppressed by getting and spending somewhat beyond their means, and their whole way of life is threatened by Bob?s fat-headed and sadistic boss. He insists that Bob cancel a family vacation in Hawaii in order to attend a merger meeting in Colorado. Bob refuses to admit the pressure he?s under, rents an ungainly RV and pretends the trip will re-bond his family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found in America | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...often concentrated on the romantic anguish of people who are all lifestyle yet in some ways life-deprived. It is good - even sort of soul satisfying - to see them diverted from their top-of-the-line preoccupations and obliged to scrape along the bottom of the line. To see Robin Williams forced to deal with a family of raccoons that have unaccountably taken up residence in his RV?s oven is to see - symbolically at least - reality bite a hand more used to keypads than to gnawing nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Found in America | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...priorities,” Summers said. Students attending conference events yesterday said that it has made them rethink their own behavior. “I didn’t realize how much water we use and how much energy it takes to treat the wastewater,” said Robin S. Bellows ’09 after attending a workshop on water use at the University. “It makes me think again about everything. Every extra minute I spend in the shower really makes a difference.” “I love that the school...

Author: By Flavio S Campos and Chelsea Y Lei, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Summers Doubles Green Campus Funds | 4/28/2006 | See Source »

...relatives who vacation in a motor home: they will bond in unforeseen ways, and they will constantly face complications involving fecal matter. “R.V.” depends largely on potty humor to elicit laughs, which is disappointing in light of its sharp comic cast featuring Robin Williams and Cheryl Hine (of “Curb Your Enthusiasm” fame). But the film is saved by a string of quips that reference the current state of American society and pop culture. These jokes, which seem to target a post-pubescent audience, make the film reasonably amusing...

Author: By Rachel E. Whitaker, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: R.V. | 4/27/2006 | See Source »

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