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...adapted from English journalist Lynn Barber's memoir by Nick Hornby and sensitively visualized by Danish director Lone Scherfig (Italian for Beginners), Mulligan is again in coming-of-age mode. In the pre-swinging London of 1961, Jenny is already a star of sorts: the smartest, most self-possessed student in her class. Her goal is to be accepted into Oxford; she wants it, and so does her rather overbearing father Jack (Alfred Molina) in the staid, lower-middle-class suburb of Twickenham. But Jenny knows that there's more to life than excelling in her courses, swanning and smoking...
...Kinsey, Elegy, Jarhead) who as Trigorin was also Mulligan's love interest in The Seagull, easily inhabits David, making him a creature of charm and mystery. The smaller roles are nicely filled out as well, including Cara Seymour as Jenny's quiet mother and Matthew Beard as a gauche student whose dreams of dating a precocious teen Jenny and Jack keep smashing...
...basis,” she said. “Needless to say, these recipes are something that we ate in college... and that we are able to share with everybody else.” As Holmberg and Kolman reiterated throughout their demonstration, they hope this cookbook will help make student transitions to veganism as easy a process as possible...
Whereas some proposed closings or cutbacks at Harvard sites ranging from the information center to departments to dining halls, one Bank visitor wanted to extend thriftiness to the most intimate of student hangouts—and no, we don’t mean the plan to go old-school, circa 1636, and reopen the fireplaces to save on the heating bill. Instead, one anonymous contributor boldly suggested, “Make people buy their own toilet paper...
...studies of the program. "Principals and other supervisors have reported that these teachers worked better with problem children, worked better with parents and worked better with colleagues," he says. On the basis of administrators' observations, "the TTT people rated higher in exhibiting behaviors that are associated with increases in student achievement...