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...Thirteen Days Starring: Kevin Costner, Bruce Greenwood Director: Roger Donaldson Opens: Dec. 25 in N.Y. and L.A.; wide...
Christmas is just part of the pantheon, one divinity among an Olympian host of holidays that includes Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, the winter solstice--and this December, for the first time in thirteen years, the Muslim month of Ramadan...
...petition your credit card bill, this seems like the time to do it...Gladiator is being shown on IMAX screens in major cities across the country starting this week. Can there be too much of a good thing? The idea of that much bone-crunching action on a thirteen-story screen makes me queasy just thinking about it... Did you catch the live Madonna concert webcast on Tuesday night from London's Brixton Academy? What a blast! (You can catch reruns on http://www.msn.co.uk/madonna)... Two proactive students are starting the Backstreet Boys Fan Alliance at Harvard. Future events include...
...that's right, thirteen days--a nefarious number if I ever heard one. Besides being unlucky, the number thirteen is also too damn small for something as large, as looked forward to, as necessary as winter vacation! This is not about comparing us to other schools. I won't rehash the old (but true) argument that every other school (with the possible exception of Princeton, but they still have eating clubs so they're not exactly trend setters) has a longer break than us. I won't recall the humiliation of having to leave home just as all your high...
...this isn't about competition. We don't care about those other schools. This is about values. This is about principles. And you know what? Thirteen days is not long enough. It's less than two weeks! If you need to have surgery over break, thirteen days probably isn't long enough to recover. If you plan on meeting a hot basketball player from Duke while home for break, thirteen days just does not cut it. And of course, if you are from Florida, two weeks is much too short a time to complete a democratic election...