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Green Party gubernatorial candidate Jill E. Stein ’73 is hoping to build on the Green’s success...
...Harvard heavyweight crew swept No. 7 Brown this weekend and successfully defended the Stein Cup, meriting its No. 2 rank in the nation and continuing its roll through the East...
Think of Jessica Stein as yet another victim in the endless urban guerrilla warfare of today's battle of the sexes. Trapped in a dull job, her ambitions as a painter thwarted, she draws her hopeless dating choices from a dismal sludge of geeks, nerds and cranks...
...think of Kissing Jessica Stein and Monsoon Wedding as routine romantic comedies, a genre that in recent years has become increasingly desperate in its search for ways of funnily frustrating its lovers for 90 minutes or so, until the inevitable reconciliation. Think of these movies, instead, as delightful comments on how the rules of romantic engagement have loosened in the contemporary world...
...Monsoon Wedding has something else on its mind. More jostling and bumptious in spirit than Kissing Jessica Stein, it shares a similar idea, which is that the way for romance to prosper in the modern world is to leave it some space to mess around with conventional expectations. These short, sweet (and low-budget) movies refuse to develop predictably. But they bring their charac ters to good, slightly surprising, quite satisfying places. And leave us beaming happily. --By Richard Schickel