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Before Greg Mottola signed on to direct the hit comedy Superbad in 2007, he had already completed a script about the summer jobs he worked in Long Island - gigs he took for the sole purpose of saving money for graduate school. He was a night watchman at a public beach, an assistant wedding videographer and a staffer at an amusement park, managing various carnival games. The last position served as the inspiration for the new coming-of-age comedy Adventureland, which opens April 3. It's about an intellectual, awkward young man named James (Jesse Eisenberg) who spends a summer...
...help you make friends that summer? No, I'm a terrible pot smoker, but I thought James needed something in his sad little world that would help open up some doors...
...Arts and Sciences—in order to incorporate the professors’ feedback. Seltzer said the committee will present a refined draft to the Harvard community in about a month to draw further commentary. The University, which began initial drafting of the approximately 100-page report last summer, has spent the past few months further editing the report, which addresses how the institution is working to meet the eleven standards of accreditation, ranging from academics to university finances. After the University finishes this process, a committee of faculty and administrators from similar institutions will visit the campus...
...Sarkozy, who summoned press to a swanky hotel in London's Knightsbridge to identify their own "non-negotiable red lines" to quote the French politician's martial phrase, nobody can confidently rule out last-minute spats. Indeed, although the concluding press conference has been scheduled for 3.30pm British summer time, delays are already rumored. (Read "The G-20's Hidden Issue: A Global Trade Imbalance...
...against Russia for control of South Ossetia. Georgia, whose bid to join the Alliance had been strongly backed by the U.S., was viewed by many Western officials as having provoked a senseless fight that would have obliged NATO to get involved had Georgia been a full member. Last summer's confrontation put Georgia's prospective membership in the deep freeze, as well as that of Ukraine, whose accession to NATO would also be taken by Moscow as provocation. Moreover, NATO's passivity in the face of Russia's pummeling of Georgia would have left member nations along Russia's western...