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...Academy-Award-nominee. What would you do next? Star in an action film, obviously. With “Shooter,” a thriller about sniper Bob Lee Swagger—who is framed in an attempted assassination of the president—Mark Wahlberg returns to a rough-and-tumble role similar to the butt-kicking captain he played in “Planet of the Apes.” But according to the actor, moviegoers can expect to see a very different Wahlberg this time around. SNIPER SCHOOL “It’s an extremely difficult...
...also frequent doomsayers about teens-none more so than Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today. In his new book, The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen (see my review from the magazine this week), Epstein argues that "many American teens are indeed in rough shape." He offers a long list of examples of what he calls "teen turmoil," everything from gang membership to drug use-all encouraged, he believes, by a pernicious teen culture that glorifies violence and substance abuse. "Attractive, trendy young people are frequently high or drunk in movies like Animal House...
...Opens April 4 WHAT THE MOVIE IS ABOUT Kids find weird toys on the beach that give them strange powers. Trouble with the law ensues Orphan geek boy travels to the future to foil a plot by a nefarious man in a bowler hat Two feuding ice skaters--one rough, one gentle--must work together to have a future The family from Are We There Yet? moves to what seems like a perfect suburban house. WHAT'S IN IT FOR KIDS? The kids save the world by ... um, Mom, what's DNA? Cool inventions, a dinosaur, a cute robot...
...rockets from Sunni insurgents intent on turning it into the next Fallujah or Ramadi. Major Jeremy Siegrist, a cavalry commander working with a Stryker battalion, says more than 20 soldiers from his battalion of 800 men and women have died fighting in the city. "We've had a very rough couple of months," he says...
Freshman admission is the lifeblood of the university, but transfer students will get as much out of their time here as any other student—indeed they may get more out of their experiences here as a direct result of their experience at another college. Ideally, a rough parity should be maintained between freshman and transfer admission rates. These applicants for admission should be considered on their merits and their ability to contribute to the Harvard community...