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Students returning to campus this fall found it more difficult than usual to quench their thirst for alcoholic beverages. The reason? Harvard’s calendar reform, which started classes a few weeks earlier than usual and left primary campus liquor providers C’est Bon Convenience and Doma Liquors caught off guard by the early return of students at the end of last month and unable to fully meet the demands of the student body. “Usually, Harvard students come here mid-September,” said Subash Khadka, an employee at Doma...
...about the fit, not the brand. Find a campus where you can challenge yourself. College-admissions offices value real intellectual curiosity. There are so many students who have extraordinary grades, and yet they have no clue how to find Iraq or Afghanistan on a map. What happened to the thirst for knowledge for knowledge's sake? [{I think}] we're beating it out of kids in this race to look good for admissions committees...
...hand of his beloved princess, but along the way gets distracted - in a send-up of the grail quest - by the hunt for something called Snappy Cola. The second story, "Gran'pa Greenbax and the Eternal Smile," focuses on a miserly frog who must confront his thirst for riches when he finds himself the subject of a Truman Show - like plot. In the final story, "Urgent Request," a mousy, ridiculed office assistant puts her faith - and money - in an unsolicited e-mail purportedly concocted by a desperate Nigerian prince. (See the top 10 graphic novels...
...releases, for a cume of $6,821,000. The bomb-squad thriller The Hurt Locker was right behind, with a five-week total of $6,757,000. The weekend's most highly acclaimed newbies - the save-the-dolphins doc The Cove and the South Korean vampire-priest horror movie Thirst - opened well, with about $55,000 each at four theaters...
...with the ripe sensuality of Francis Coppola's take on Dracula, the film should make audiences sit up in startled pleasure, as if they'd just received the most luscious neck-bite. So take a break from the summer's zombified blockbusters and surrender to the crimson ecstasy of Thirst...