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There are plenty of comedies about failure (see Free Ride, below). The Loop is about the problems of success: Sam (Bret Harrison, near right) is an airline exec in his 20s whose roommates' idea of a big deadline is still last call at the bar. The jokes can be broad (e.g., the airline starts an offshoot called Jack; if you can't guess where the dirty puns go from there, you don't watch much Fox). But Harrison shows Topher Gracean charm as a guy stuck between adolescence and adulthood, and Philip Baker Hall (Magnolia) steals every scene...
...prove to the City of Cambridge that we’re not the boss of you—because that’s a little bit the game we’re playing right now?” Cambridge’s director of environmental health, Sam Lipson, reviews the monthly evaluations, but the documents are not available to the public. Harvard has refused—and is not required—to make the reports available to residents. The University and Lipson say Harvard is not in violation of any environmental standards. “We have allowed Sam...
...chairwoman of the Brookline Board of Selectmen, told students about her roots in the business world as a member of the family that founded the Northeastern supermarket chain Stop & Shop. Worcester Mayor Tim Murray recounted his struggles as a local official against a hostile Republican state administration. Child psychiatrist Sam Kelley spoke of his boyhood on a chicken farm and his adult work as medical director of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children...
...combined to finish in 1:27.67—setting a new team and meet record. The Crimson continued to dominate, winning the next three events. Freshman Eric Lynch snagged first in the 1000-yard freestyle, finishing only 0.03 seconds ahead of Princeton’s Robert Griest. Sophomore Sam Wollner also finished fifth. “There’s just one gear for [Lynch] when he swims, and it’s not often that he runs people down,” Cromwell said. “He just kept chipping away the whole race...
...troops, will assume a greater role. But in places like Helmand province, where few Afghan or foreign troops were stationed, the main burden of fending off the insurgents has fallen to an Afghan police force that is poorly trained and often overmatched by the Taliban. Says Sam Zia-Zarifi, research director of Human Rights Watch's Asia Division: "They are totally ill prepared for what they are going to face...