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Henry Louis "Skip" Gates Jr., the powerful head of the Afro-American Studies Department--and a self-described former "flavor of the month" for the presidency himself--says that Rice would have been "brilliant" as the 27th president of Harvard...
There's a paradox there. His movies are no more stimulating visually than the cable docs they ape. Their sophistication comes from somewhere else. But they get under your skin--O.K., we'll skip the dog-with-fleas joke--and make you think about something most movies have forgotten: the ineluctability of American innocence. Odd that it takes a sardonic nobleman to remind us of that. Odd but exhilarating...
...high heels. Instead, the way she manipulates her dark, piercing eyes, which are emphasized throughout the film, does the trick. And although I refuse to buy that Diana and her imposing boyfriend would be boxing in the same weight class, Diana's fight scenes with him and others thankfully skip the gratuitous melodrama plaguing many of the battles in typical action films...
Harvard has a long history with the Olympics. James B. Connolly, Class of 1898, won the first-ever gold medal of the modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896. Connolly competed in the hop, skip and jump, now commonly known as the triple jump...
...skip dinner to wait, along with 124 of my fellow college students, outside the Marriott Hotel at Cambridge Center, only to return home at 20 minutes to midnight? The answer: to get rich quick. But, rather than starting a dot-com company, I chose to try out for "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Hey, if you can not only win a million dollars, but also meet Regis Philbin, who could pass up such an opportunity...