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...early-'70s wave of porno features. Studios quickly became reluctant to release X-rated films, and an important avenue for frank artistic initiative was closed off. The director was still "free to make any movie he wants to make"; but now his studio contract obliged him to trim an X down to an R. Freedom of expression was now the right to make any movie that, in the eyes of the ratings board, a parent could take his kids...
Saturday night in Baghdad, and Heidi, the barmaid at the Baghdad Country Club, is worried about the beer. On a busy night, she might serve 800 cold ones to the diplomats, security guards and construction workers who frequent the Country Club, a white cinder-block house with blue trim on a residential street in the Green Zone. The BCC, as it's known, gets its alcohol from suppliers outside the walls, but insurgents are targeting the crossings on either side of the Tigris River. On this Saturday, a truck bomb on a bridge has locked up traffic on the west...
Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law David B. Wilkins ’77 hosted the event at his Cambridge home, a forest-green Victorian with orange trim tucked at the bottom of a hill near Brattle Street...
...tours of the jungle on giant-engine trail bikes or tours of the coast in giant-engine speedboats. And money and hydrocarbons meet in delicious symphony at one of Port Gentil's smartest restaurants, San Lorenzo, whose $30 special is currently "fresh tuna in oil." The manager, Ludovic, a trim 25-year-old Frenchman who was born in Port Gentil and returned to open a restaurant after cleaning up as a model in Paris, is candid about the effect his home town can have on your sanity. "Almost everything costs in Port Gentil," he grins. "But madness - that comes gratuit...
Harvard seized control of the game with a 17-2 run on both sides of halftime, after Dartmouth had rallied to trim a initial eight-point Harvard lead to 23-20. Rollins contributed eight points during the stretch and junior guard Lindsay Hallion added five of her 11. The Crimson’s cushion expanded to as much as 22 in the second half, and though the Big Green managed to trim it to 12 on three occasions, the home team was never seriously threatened...