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...smallest houses on campus, Kirkland may be a welcome sight on the morning of Housing Day. Maybe you’ve heard whispered rumors of Secret Santa Week or about the house life—incredibly close-knit, bordering on downright incestuous. But there’s more to Kirkland than raunchy dining hall skits and regrettable hook-ups. Find out after the jump?...
...Saving Our Planet, a high income-tax bracket gives the rich another advantage: a platform on which they can advance the causes that matter to them. And believe it or not, a surprising number of super-wealthy Americans are using their money to fight for what Humes calls "a secret plan to save the earth." (See the top 10 green stories...
...called Peach Princesses. Where did the inspiration for this name come from? JH: It’s from a really famous Chinese children’s book, called “Journeys from the West.” People nowadays, when they interpret it, get a lot of secret messages out of it. But I would bet that every Chinese person knows this story. Basically, there is a garden in heaven, and if you eat the peaches from the trees in the garden you can live a thousand years more. The dancers are the protectors of the peach trees...
...noticeably contrived. Their stilted words and staging make them appear painfully conscious that they are acting, and the plasticity of their conversations is impossible to overlook. To be sure, there is a patent attempt to flesh out the main characters’ three-dimensionality. Tucker’s secret sexual naïveté, for instance, complicates his otherwise insufferably flat character. But nothing can save either protagonist from the actors’ forced deliveries. Ultimately, Hugh Hefner is the only realistic character in the film, and that isn’t saying much since the man plays himself. Like...
...Since last May, Ankara has hosted several rounds of secret peace talks between Syria and Israel. It also played a role in helping secure the tenuous cease-fire that ended hostilities in Gaza earlier this year. Turkey has also been approached by Tehran to mediate in its standoff with Washington over Iran's nuclear program. A day after Secretary Clinton's Ankara visit, a high-profile Turkish delegation flew to Tehran, with whose regime Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's moderate Islamist-rooted government enjoys good relations...