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...first hand. After you make your way out of the antiquated locker room, you’ll find yourself in perhaps the smallest exercise facility of any college in the country. At a school that costs around $40,000 a year, its central athletic facility has one treadmill per thousand students and a bench press per three thousand, give or take a few. To make matters worse, this already crowded facility is not just used by undergraduate students but graduate students and anyone at all associated with Harvard. You’ll frequently find yourself waiting behind some fat, middle...
...private life should be irrelevant to the art and glamour he can create onscreen. And there, alchemy occurs. Crowe is often magnificent: attractive, complex, subtle. Watching him slip inside a role is a matter not of forgiving but of forgetting all the tabloid baggage. The lout of a thousand headlines vanishes, and the superb movie actor appears magically in his place. When Crowe is at the helm of a movie, we're proud to sail with...
...What would that cost?" we ask. "Depending on the focus depth, somewhere between three hundred and four hundred thousand dollars. Now once you're ready to roll out the product, you'll have to learn how to attend to distribution, promotion and advertising, public relations--our experience is with the big guys, and they figure to spend a million dollars to launch a new product--that's the general rule the first year...
...humiliate China. Posters appeared on dormitory walls. "Protect our nation, throw out the attackers," read one. Rumors that the Japanese had worn pig's heads and had racist insults written on their costumes circulated quickly via mobile-phone text messages and Internet bulletin boards. More than a thousand angry students massed outside the foreign students' dormitory and sang the Chinese national anthem, before shouting for the "Japanese pigs" to come out and apologize. When no one appeared, protesters broke windows with bricks, burst into the dorm and beat up two Japanese students who had had nothing to do with...
Walter Guffy, the owner of 1124 Mass. Ave., said that Sigma Chi’s bid fell “a couple hundred thousand dollars” short of his target price...