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...like casting Jude Law as the Elephant Man), Zellweger absolutely sparkles and charms in the role. With an additional and visibly obvious 20 pounds added to her normally petite frame, it initially appears as if the filmmakers have missed the point of Bridget Jones in making her a tad too tubby. After all, in the novel, at an average of 124 pounds, Bridget is decidedly not overweight—she merely obsesses about feeling “ashamed and repulsive” and as if she “actually feels the fat splurging out from my body?...
...Crimson’s other usual weekend starter, junior Justin Nyweide, may or may not be available after working in Wednesday’s disappointing 7-2 loss to Rhode Island. In that game, Nyweide was a tad too generous with the free passes, allowing four walks. But he was helped little by the Crimson fielders, who committed a ghastly seven errors...
...this is small-scale stereotyping. If I really wanted to offend Harvard Asians, I might sit down and write an article in which I was, well, a tad critical of the Asian community. For instance, I might suggest that there was, let's say, a slight trend toward ethnic self-segregation, or a slight proclivity for the sciences over the humanities among Asian-Americans. And I might, if I were so inclined (not that anyone would be), get downright nasty and suggest that a large chunk of these self-segregated, math-and-science types are self-absorbed, clannish and downright...
...instance, last year 156 employees from Kelly Services' Scientific Resources Group held their annual meeting on a four-day Bahamian cruise aboard Norwegian's Majesty. Meetings took place Saturday and Sunday from 8 a.m. till noon, leaving afternoons free. (And obviously, ducking meetings for the tennis court is a tad more difficult at sea.) Dinners were scheduled so employees from different locations could get together. "The impact it had on the staff was incredible. Many had never been on a cruise," says Rolf Kleiner, a senior vice president at Kelly. "It also came out cheaper than a land-based resort...
Olympians are urged to aim high, but might it be a tad excessive for the scandal-plagued International Olympic Committee to aim for a Nobel Peace Prize? Not to JUAN ANTONIO SAMARANCH, the body's mercurial president, who is said to be lobbying "feverishly" for a plan to stage the Games in Seoul in hopes that this would engender warm feelings between North and South Korea and possibly cement reconciliation. "It's a brilliant I.O.C. comeback plan," says a source familiar with Samaranch's ploy. "After all the scandals, the corruption and sycophancy, the I.O.C. can finally be seen...