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...heartfelt than the other--are in order for two ambitious films about people trying to stay in control when they are at work or out of it. The more conventional of the two, Changing Lanes, is about two men--slick lawyer Gavin (Ben Affleck) and harried insurance salesman Doyle (Samuel L. Jackson)--who collide on a Manhattan highway while rushing to respective court appointments. Gavin needs to secure judicial approval of his firm's right to manage a dead man's billions; Doyle hopes to win back his separated wife and his kids. Gavin heedlessly drives off, leaving Doyle with...
None of the imagined interactions sink to the level of absurdity that often comes with such anachronism, and the characters remain entirely believable throughout. Perlman made a shrewd decision in casting Samuel H. Perwin ’04 in two roles. As the Balladeer, he sings simplistic folk-style description and commentary on the first three completed assassinations. After the Balladeer is driven from the stage by a horde of bitter assassins, Perwin reappears in the final scenes as Lee Harvey Oswald...
...morn in 1858, Eliot and the other graduate students who were on the crew team “agreed that on account of the large number of entries they must have some distinguishing mark other than the underclothes in which they customarily rowed,” according to historian Samuel E. Morison, Class of 1908, in Three Centuries of Harvard. Hence, Eliot’s hasty run to buy the kerchiefs, which the athletes wore “to keep sweat out of their eyes when participating in sporting events,” according to Plummer Professor of Christian Morals...
...price increase has nothing to do with the switch to ‘fair trade’ and everything to do with switching to a higher grade of coffee,” Samuel B. Houshower ’03, a member of HFTI. “‘Fair trade’ saves money by dealing directly with the growers and cutting out middlemen...
...GLOBE-TROTTING Move over, Moby Dick. In April, two books will be coming out about a bloody moment in maritime history: the bloody mutiny on the whaleship Globe. Norton, publisher of Thomas Heffernan's "Mutiny on the Globe: The Fatal Voyage of Samuel Comstock," writes, "When Comstock - a headstrong 20-year-old - signed on to the whaleship Globe in 1822, his sea chest contained an unusual secret stash - a diverse collection of seeds, tools, medical supplies and weapons. With these neatly packed items, Comstock intended to carry out a strange career goal: to become king of his own South Seas...