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...false premise is a road to ruin. My mission is to correct people when they perceive things wrongly," snarls Lydon, hoping the film finally clarifies the group's twin-barreled assault on the music industry and Britain's class system. (Ironically, at test screenings, some teens thought it was fiction.) In Filth's strangest, most poignant moment, he breaks down crying while discussing Sid Vicious, the bandmate he lost to heroin. "I care about anyone dying a stupid death," he says, though he fought to snip his sobbing from the final cut. Says director Julien Temple: "I argued that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Rotten Good Time | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

...Harvard bought the land on which the Pudding building sits, in an attempt to rescue the organization from financial ruin. The group was to pay rent to Harvard for using the land...

Author: By Joyce K. Mcintyre, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Illingworth Weighs Pudding Changes | 4/12/2000 | See Source »

...news has caused consternation in Europe, where GM food has become a particularly hot issue, with environmentalists concerned about the modified fish's potential impact on wildlife. They say that although the experimental fish are bred to be sterile, one mistake - one fish that escapes - could ruin wild populations. The GM fish are known to have a lower egg-survival rate, weaker muscle structure and poorer swimming performance than normal salmon. But the economic arguments seem sure to outweigh the environmental ones. "After all, we've practically fished out our oceans already," says TIME science writer Frederic Golden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Despite Alarms, GM Food Appears Inevitable | 4/12/2000 | See Source »

...1980s, the club restaurant, where members could buy a steak dinner for less than $10, dwindled in popularity. With no one patronizing the expensive venture, the club decided it was in its best interest to lease the space as a public restaurant, inaugurating Upstairs at the Pudding. As financial ruin loomed, the Club looked to Harvard for a lifeline, and in 1986, the University purchased the land--but not the building--that the Pudding calls home. Since then, Harvard has acted as the building's protective landlord by leasing the building to the Institute of 1770-Hasty Pudding Club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Pudding is Dead...long live the pudding? | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

...club was running an expensive restaurant for very few undergraduates." In 1986, the University pulled the Pudding out of its immediate problems when HPRE purchased the property on which the clubhouse sits. HPRE's Scott Levitan said the University took action purely to rescue the Institute from financial ruin. "We work with the trustees to preserve the student groups. Otherwise, I don't think Harvard would be stepping in to deal with their problems," he said. But the University may have had a few stronger motives. "The primary reason was to land bank a valuable piece of property that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fifteen Minutes: The Pudding is Dead...long live the pudding? | 4/6/2000 | See Source »

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