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Several decades and a Nobel prize later, Chu will finally receive a Harvard degree—all Commencement speakers who are chosen by a four-member and tight-lipped committee recieve an honorary degree from the University at the ceremony...
...rest of the Adventureland gang is good company as well. There's gangly, pimply, well-read Joel (Martin Starr), who offers James proof that there's intelligent life outside the Ivies. Lisa P (Margarita Levieva) is the essence of a mid-'80s goddess, all lip gloss, tight high-waisted pants and fluffy hair. An older, married handyman named Connell (Ryan Reynolds) flirts with every female employee, including the smart, sullen one James likes, Em (Twilight's Kristen Stewart, whose grins are seldom but feel like sunshine in an Alaskan winter). Connell is James' polar opposite, a heel who relishes being...
...looked down I saw nothing. But I lifted my bottom just a smidge (not caring a flip now if I drew attention) and pulled up what was below me: my hymnal! I’d forgotten I’d even been carrying it.Now I took it, clasped it tight with both hands. And as I looked up I couldn’t help smirking real big. The queasies let up some but they were still trotting around my insides. One of them stopped, though. Stopped real sudden. Stayed put right in my middle.I felt a grin sprout...
...said they agreed with MacDonald and mentioned that the tax hike would affect the smokers more than the tobacco corporations. “It’s ridiculous. It doesn’t hurt the tobacco companies at all, just the smokers. A lot of them are on a tight budget as it is,” said Michael L. Nachbar, a student at Tufts University. Nachbar added that he sympathized with serious smokers. “I’m never going to bum a cigarette again,” he said. But other residents said they approved...
...leaders in their motorcades swept out of central London and into the bleaker reaches of the city's eastern sprawl at first light this morning. After sporadic violence from protestors yesterday and amid tight anti-terror precautions, police were out in force along the otherwise deserted route. The delegations were served breakfast before being lined up for the obligatory family snap and then sitting down for business. They have 2 hours and 40 minutes before lunch and one hour after lunch to finalize their plans. Because many of the chief participants need to depart London this evening for tomorrow...