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...House residents. Requiring students to pay out of pocket in order to join in regular House festivities such as happy hours is an unnecessarily divisive practice. Moreover, it is unreasonable for Houses to charge students for access to money that is theirs to begin with through termbill payments. Naturally, ticket costs for formals and special bashes should not be regarded as House dues; but students should have the option of opting into these events individually and not yoked to all-or-nothing deals...
...genre aficionados who can be relied upon to turn out en masse for opening weekend. Disparaging word of mouth between fans, not hostile reviews, is what sinks fear flicks. By withholding these films from critics, the studios make it difficult for casual filmgoers to decide where to spend their ticket money. Then again, that was the point. Surprisingly, the response of film critics to these outrages has been muted. For a brief while, Ebert and Roper issued un-screened movies a “wagging finger of shame” rather than their usual “thumbs up?...
...video, Lazy Sunday, a rap with Chris Parnell which boasted, gangster-style, of the wimpiest activities imaginable: buying a baker's dozen of cupcakes, seeing The Chronicles of Narnia, using Google maps, yelling out movie-trivia answers at the screen and spending $10 bills: "Roll up in the theater. Ticket buying's what we handle. You can call us Aaron Burrs from the way we're dropping Hamiltons." The video, thanks to the Internet, became an instant classic. Within weeks there were Bakers Dozen T shirts and rap video responses from people in Los Angeles, Britain and Muncie...
WHRB’s has found its golden ticket to financial security in the form of classical broadcasting. And it’s no big surprise that a decent number of Harvard undergraduates with a knowledge and enthusiasm for classical music make a staff of top-notch classical...
...than Banton, who is one of the nation's most popular dance-hall singers. Born Mark Myrie, he grew up the youngest of 15 children in Kingston's Salt Lane - the sort of slum dominated by ultraconservative Christian churches and intensely anti-gay Rastafarians. Banton parlayed homophobia into a ticket out of Salt Lane. One of his first hits, 1992's Boom Bye-Bye, boasts of shooting gays with Uzis and burning their skin with acid "like an old tire wheel...