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...odds with each other over issues of space and staff. This is particularly evident when one compares the level of the College's support for public service to its support for athletics. The students who want to do public service get a cramped three-floor building and a skeleton crew; those involved with athletics get enormous and expensive athletic facilities on both sides of the river and a legion of coaches and support staff...
...constellation sketched onto it, invite the viewer into the small forest scenario at twilight located inside. A ceiling of oak leaves, with an enormous wasp nest nestled snugly amidst them, shelters a large tea-stained book with various letters printed upon its thick pages. To the left, a small skeleton made of grapevine branches twirls slowly in circles...
...Fast Track is a good idea," said Rudd W. Coffey '97, who served as a member of the advisory committee on Memorial Hall. "It is a self-contained unit that allows Loker to run on a skeleton crew...
...will be a sad year for lovers of the Mutter Museum calendar, produced since 1993 by the fascinating medical museum in Philadelphia. The award-winning calendar highlighted objects from the museum's collection, including the skeleton of twins fused at the head and a wax model of a patient with syphilitic leukoplakia of the tongue (above). The calendar sold thousands of copies and won fans as diverse as the Las Vegas magician Teller (of Penn & Teller) and Harvard University professor of biology Stephen Jay Gould, who calls them "works of art." The calendars earned as much as $15,000 annually...
...Lone Star A skeleton, unearthed after a 30-year rest, leads sheriff Sam Deeds (Chris Cooper) on a deeply disturbing dig into his own past and that of a Texas border town that turns out to be a lot less somnolent than it looks. Sam manages to recover a lost love (shiningly portrayed by Elizabeth Pena) but the countywide network of corruption eventually snags them both. Writer-director John Sayles is a subtle, patient craftsman; he knows that in good fiction, history has to be more than a throwaway line. Sayles also has a gift for showing, without bloodily melodramatizing...