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...product it either parodies (the cop-buddy action pics) or resembles (the current wave of Stiller-Ferrell-Vaughn-Wilson-Wilson slob-buddy comedies) is that Wright is an actual filmmaker. His acute sense of visual wit, rich but not assaultive, puts me in mind of Buster Keaton's classic silent farces. To Wright, the movie screen offers a smorgasbord of small, savory gags to be sampled by the attentive viewer; it's not a grapefruit pushed in your face...
...beautiful,” said Michael R. Ragalie ’09, the chair of the UC’s Student Affairs Committee. After the service, organizers planned to leave the doors of Memorial Church open until 8:45 a.m. this morning for those wishing to stay for silent prayer and meditation. “Harvard students asked for this vigil and I’m happy to oblige them,” Gomes said. Richard D. Kadison, chief of mental health at the Harvard University Health Services, said that there will be a drop-in group this afternoon...
...tried to open the door to that room, which was dark and silent inside. But a body was on the other side of the door, blocking the way. Each time she pushed the door, the body would slump forward, but she still couldn't get in. She leaned in and asked if everyone was OK. There was no answer. So she ran. She ran to her Resident Assistant's room, not realizing that it was her RA, Ryan "Stack" Clark, whose body had been blocking the door of 4040. With Clark not in his room, Donohue made an odd decision...
...lifeless. "Sometimes after a shot I would hear a quick moan, or a slow one, or a grunt, or a quiet, reserved yell from one of the girls. After some time--I couldn't tell you if it was five minutes or an hour--he left. The room was silent except for the haunting sound of moans, some quiet crying and someone muttering, 'It's O.K. It's going to be O.K. They will be here soon...
While most other Ivy League universities issued letters of condolence to their communities in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings on Monday, Harvard’s top administrators have remained largely silent and left the job of consoling students to the undergraduate Houses...