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...have time even to read CliffsNotes? Come January, Britain's Dot Mobile will roll out a new cell-phone service that summarizes literary classics in ultra-terse text messages. The firm aims to "fillet" pertinent plot points and provide another important study aid by highlighting key quotes. Who's helping the company distill the works of Austen, Dickens and Shakespeare into précis such as the one below of Romeo and Juliet? John Sutherland, who chaired the judging panel for this year's Man Booker Prize for fiction. The University College London professor says text messaging's "educational opportunities...
...ratings are soaring, galleries are record breaking and corporate sponsors are clamoring to get in. So what's left for Bivens--a 14 handicap at her best--to shoot for? Plenty, especially on the global front. "On just about any Sunday morning, the leaderboard looks like the U.N. roll call," she says. The LPGA Tour will probably add a stop in Thailand in 2006, and Bivens is talking about China next. Back home, she'll expand an LPGA marketing campaign that spotlights players' personalities. The tag line: These Girls Rock! --By Jeff...
...Middle East box office or through Ticketmaster. $15 in advance, $18 date of show. (PRC)Slim Cessna’s Auto Club with Wrong Reasons, Hank Crane, and Johnny Carlevale & The Broken Rhythm Boys. Wrong Reasons will play their country, blues, and rock-’n’-roll at 9:15 p.m., Boston-area band Hank Crane will perform at 10:15, and Johnny Carlevale & The Broken Rhythm Boys will showcase their “rhythm and roots” act at 11:15, all before Slim Cessna’s Auto Club, with a new live...
...moderated by outgoing President Shaw Natsui ’05-’06, Rodriguez was chosen by secret ballot over Chimaobi O. Amutah ’07, who was director of the 2005 Mission Hill Summer Program. The hour of deliberation was filled with several parliamentary components, including roll call, candidate statements, individual questioning, group questioning, and the actual balloting. Rodriguez, who was born in the Dominican Republic, said she moved to South Boston seven years ago, where she has done much of her PBHA community service work. Her candidate statement listed her as director of the South Boston...
...over their faces as they stare profoundly into middle distance. His girlfriend resembles Brittany Murphy on a cocaine-and-makeup binge. The first part of the video depicts Jimmy’s life as a hazy, jumpily filmed swirl of sex, drugs, rock-’n’-roll, hating his mom, and watching Green Day perform “Jesus of Suburbia” on TV (so meta it hurts). This thrilling lifestyle is cut short about halfway through the video, as his girlfriend leaves him; he gets into fights, and assumes a general aura of angst. Never...