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...Stiller, Hollywood's biggest international comedy star, with Peter and Bobby Farrelly, writer-directors of cheerfully gross comedies. You probably loved There's Something About Mary, where Stiller fell in love with giggly blond Cameron Diaz and won her by fighting off a platoon of suitors and surviving a slew of acute embarrassments (the zipper, the hair gel, the dog). Now here's The Heartbreak Kid, in which Stiller falls for and weds a Diaz-type blond (Malin Akerman) only to discover, on his honeymoon, he's married the Woman from Hell - and that, if only he can ditch...
...richest entrepreneurs are children of high-ranking officials who use their connections to gain favorable business deals. Mindful that anger at corruption was the original motive for the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, Hu's government has promoted a nationwide antigraft campaign that has brought down a slew of senior officials, including Chen Liangyu, party secretary of Shanghai, who is under arrest and reportedly awaiting sentencing for his alleged role in a scheme that channeled enormous sums in pension funds into private investment. Hu and his close ally Premier Wen Jiabao have also sought to shift growth from the coast...
...himself. Now, obviously, he's going to change that." Jindal has responded with ads of his own, attacking his opponents as part of the "corrupt crowd" - even though none of the other major candidates has been tainted by scandal - and touting his conservative bona fides. He's released a slew of position papers on topics ranging from health care to crime, and promised to reform Louisiana's ethically challenged political system - a perennial campaign theme that has had limited success among past reform candidates...
Especially since some of those injury worries have already been realized. Noticeably missing from the slew of playmaking Harvard wideouts this year is junior Chris Sanders, who came into his own last year as a special-situation wideout, taking reverses, throwing passes and using his speed to make tacklers miss in open space...
...lights when Harvard (0-1) hosts Brown (1-0) at 7:30 p.m. tomorrow night in the Crimson’s home opener at Harvard Stadium.Announced in May, the game was initially scheduled for tonight, but the Department of Athletics moved it to tomorrow night in response to a slew of complaints last month. Most centered on the conflict with the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur and the additional strain a night game would place on the Allston community, where the stadium is located.Whatever the date, the game’s historic appeal remains, marking the first regular-season...