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Here's the basic setup: you've been captured by a demented movie director who plops you down in an abandoned slum infested with gang members. The gang members think they're hunting you. They are sadly mistaken. You are hunting them, with whatever weapons--a plastic bag, a sawed-off 12 gauge--you can lay your ruthless, muscular hands on. Meanwhile, the director gleefully captures the gore on film...
Some Feast for the Eyes events are still in the planning stage, and they vary in setup. This coming Thursday, presenting a ticket stub from the sexually-charged Mexican audience-pleaser Like Water for Chocolate at Finale will get you a $17.95 appetizer and dessert combo, plus an unspecified “parting gift.” A full list is available at www.brattlefilm.org/thursday.html....
Unfortunately, Harvard’s administrative setup dictates that the ultimate responsibility for overseeing any MAC renovations lies not with the willing and able Gross, but the altogether more remote Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby. That the man who admonished the incoming Class of 2006 with the phrase “you are here to work, and your business here is to learn” is the individual who has to take the lead in fixing up recreational athletic facilities is not terribly heartening. Kirby has, however, insisted that he “desperately want[s] to renovate...
Though the original intention was to work with companies in a non-accusatory manner, independent labor experts have argued that this setup has prevented the FLA from achieving its goals...
...because relatively lax regulations remain for analog broadcast through cable wires—digital music transfer has been highly guarded by record companies since the high-quality music downloads compete with CDs—it was thought that this system would have satisfied all. The elegant setup might have allowed MIT to simultaneously keep students and record labels satisfied while mimizing the amount of network bandwidth used by illegal music downloads...