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...serviceable plot device - three nerds, fiendishly set upon by a high school bully, hire a bodyguard to protect them. He turns out to be not the special forces vet he claims to be, but a homeless man - physically inept and cowardly to boot. The only thing Drillbit Taylor neglects is to make any sort of comic capital out of a basic situation that a lot of people - not all of them currently afflicted by acne - have endured in life. Mostly the kids (Troy Gentile, Nate Hartley and David Dorfman) are humiliated in a lot of unfunny ways while Drillbit, pretending...
...think we’re all going to get a shot,” Jenkins says of second base. “Hopefully, I’ll do my best, play well, and [coach Joe Walsh] will respect that.”Joining Jenkins in the mix is senior Taylor Meehan, who hit .360 in the Ivies as a sophomore but sat out all of last year with a shoulder injury; versatile junior speedster Matt Rogers; and promising freshman Sean O’Hara, who is nursing a shoulder ailment of his own that will keep him from playing...
...Enter retail. It's certainly not rosy in retail-land: The Sharper Image, Lillian Vernon Crop and Bombay Company have all declared bankruptcy. Ann Taylor announced the phaseout of 117 of its 921 stores over the next three years and Liz Claiborne is shutting down 54 Sigrid Olson shops this year. Talbots streamlined 22 more stores in addition to the 78 it already had announced while also ending Talbots Mens and Talbots Kids. The International Council of Shopping Centers forecasts that store closings could reach 5,770 this year - the highest since...
...another layer of security so we know that people in the building are members of the Harvard community. Although the policy will not go into effect for another two weeks, some students have already expressed concerns. “I fully do not support it,” Taylor M. Owings ’08 said of the change. Owings added that causing students to miss class would be “rather silly.” “I frequently leave my ID in my room,” she said. Mariel L. Wolfson, a second-year graduate...
...penalty-filled match, in which the Bobcats scored on its first four power-play opportunities, the Crimson turned its focus last night to one key theme: penalties. “We did a much better job tonight staying out of the box,” co-captain Mike Taylor said. The Crimson tallied only six penalties to the Bobcats’ five, and Harvard’s special teams shut out Quinnipiac on every one of its power-play opportunities. “We did a much better job limiting their ability to get easy offense,” said...