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...somewhat stunned at the moment, amused, and a bit proud…it’s a definite honor,” said Watson, Agricultural History prize winner...
...film moves from fight to fight, strung together with several vague and unsatisfying storylines, as Matt becomes more and more involved in his new way of life. He goes from barely being able to throw a punch (a state of affairs for the puny Wood that is somewhat more convincing than his later role as an expert brawler) to masterminding some of the firm’s more impressive exploits...
...feet. Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton-educated attorney, short and kind of frumpy. Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is her party-animal kid sister, embarrassingly idiotic yet able to seduce any man she targets. Maggie bums off of Rose’s couch and they establish a somewhat reciprocal, primarily parasitical, relationship, in which Maggie updates Rose on the latest fashions (“1994 called—it wants its scrunchie back”) in return for unauthorized loans from Maggie’s vast shoe collection...
Though overlong and somewhat predictable, the film manages to combine feel-good sentiments with funny remedies for low self-esteem. Rose may not feel comfortable in a thong, but sexual confidence abounds the minute she steps into her black stilettos, reminding every person who’s ever gained the “Freshman 15” or felt irredeemably unattractive, that everyone has something to flaunt...
Admittedly, Eliot’s recent spate of fire alarms has been somewhat unusual—of the three total alarms of this semester, two occurred within a 30-hour period. The cause of the problem, however, was also unusual and has already been addressed. (A smoke detector in a basement bakery was tripped by steam and water that had been generated by recent maintenance work done on a nearby wall.) We’re pleased that maintenance officials are taking steps to correct this issue, and we encourage the University to do whatever it can to similarly reduce...