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...young people take flight on a dragon, just like in Avatar, but the trip is longer and way swoopier. Ancient warriors strut their testosterone in approved Beowulf or 300 fashion. A kid befriends an otherworldly creature - a flame-spuming update of the alien from E.T. - and tries to hide him from adults. It's a foolproof scheme for picture making: take the plot elements of favorite movies, paint the concoction with bright colors so it looks like the zazziest customized car, set it running at NASCAR speed - then add 3-D - and you have How to Train Your Dragon...
...while Pixar has taken five: Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Ratatouille, WALLE and Up. This year, DreamWorks' perky Monsters vs Aliens was not even one of the five finalists. "Each year I do one DreamWorks project," actor Jack Black told the crowd at the 2009 ceremony, "then I take all the money to the Oscars and bet it on Pixar...
...Beard is far too human to be the hero they'd hoped for, well, climate scientists should still take heart. At least McEwan - steeped in scientific inquiry and accustomed to facing hard truths in his fiction - is no climate-change denier. "Here's the good news," Beard tells a business partner who is worried that climate doubters will hurt their business. "The U.N. estimates that already a third of a million people are dying from climate change. Even as we speak, Bangladesh is going down because the oceans are warming and expanding and rising." In other words, says a jovial...
Larrow was far from the only Harvard player to be successful at the plate. Every hitter reached safely at least once, and the Crimson followed up its solid second frame with three runs in the third to take a commanding lead...
Harvard earned a narrow split during its first day of Ivy League play at Princeton on Saturday, losing a heartbreaker in extra innings in the first game of the doubleheader before bouncing back to take the nightcap. The Crimson benefited from solid pitching performances in both games, and could easily have emerged with two victories, but the Tigers (6-14, 1-1 Ivy) managed to squeak out a win on a walk-off single in the 12th...