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...more important than at any other time in history. What is more, the perpetuation of a large subculture with little or no skill in English could lead to something the U.S. has so far managed to avoid: the rise of a nation-within-a-nation, the growth of the sort of linguistic or "communal" factionalism that has long haunted countries such as India, Sri Lanka, Belgium and most recently Canada...
...American youth who escaped a Turkish jail after he was caught carrying hashish in Istanbul-suggests the possibility of a familiar kind of genre film. Clever and desperate prisoners concocting elaborate escape plans, fooling their dense and brutal warders, finally making it to freedom despite the odds -that sort of nonsense, escapist entertainment in the most literal sense of the term. Indeed, the promotion for this film encourages such expectations...
LeBoutillier, it seems, is a rather sheltered sort. "In a physical sense, the 'Square' appears normal," he writes. "However, under no circumstances can the term 'normal' be applied to Harvard Square." It's all part of the same phenomenon. Gays make him "shiver." Hare Krishna are hypocrites...
MOST EMBARRASSING MOMENT: "Yeah, I guess it would have to be last year when we were looking at Harvard films. I'm a little deaf in one ear, see, so when Coach Blackman starts talking about the Restic "Multisex" offense, I start giggling, you know, sort of quiet like. And then coach Blackman, he says, 'OK, Elmer, what's the joke? If it's so funny, why don't you share it WITH THE WHOLE TEAM?' So I go, 'Heh, heh, the multisex, what does that mean--some of the the guys wear PANTIES on the field or something...
BUDDING technocrats at the Kennedy School may find cause to admire the fiscal prudence with which Engelhard built his father's $20 million nest egg into a quarter-billion dollar empire. In his non-corporate life, however, Engelhard was not exactly the thrifty sort. His expenditures on life's luxuries make his philanthropic pittances pall by comparison. Before he died, Engelhard owned nine homes on four continents, including a hunting lodge in the Transvaal, and a mansion outside Johannesburg...