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...fellow exploitation enthusiasts (“Hostel” director Eli Roth, “Shaun of the Dead” director Edgar Wright, and heavy metalist Rob Zombie among them). The film stands as an homage to a time when grindhouses served as the unofficial outposts for a select set of disgruntled adolescents ill-served by the Hollywood studio system and looking for an alternative. An alternative which they found in low budget flicks that spanned several genres—kung fu, horror, and car-chase, being just a few—which were played incessantly at the grungiest...
...aids their pick - just as number recognition slows them down slightly when a larger 2 sits next to a smaller 4. But when Cohen Kadosh stimulated a specific part of each subject's right parietal lobe, they performed exactly the same as a group of dyscalculics, whose ability to select which numeral was printed the largest was unaffected by the numbers' underlying values. No other region of the brain responded the same...
...report noted that the Committee consulted CCL as well as “a select group of undergraduate students.” But it also notes that “the students with whom it consulted disagree” with the recommendation to hold student organization leaders accountable for members’ behavior at group events...
Don’t be fooled by the title. The dean of the Faculty wields more influence over the lives and educations of Harvard College students than any other person, the president included. As President-elect Drew G. Faust prepares to select her dean in what will likely be the single most important decision of her first years in office that fact should weigh heavily on her mind. All the lofty rhetoric about how Harvard was a college for its first two centuries or how the College is the most central unit to Harvard’s mission will ring...
...legislatures,” the former colonies set aside a reservation in the swamps between Maryland and Virginia expressly for containing politicians. Every other year, communities would exile the individual with the most votes against him to the swamp reservation for two years. Every state also would select the two politicians with the severest condition and exile them for six years. Although this exile system has been in place for 226 years, it has simply slowed the infection rate instead of reversing the tide...