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Zucker originally envisioned a dream team for the Rat Race cast. "We started out looking at the $20 million players," says the director, who had hoped that comedy titans like Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Will Smith and Adam Sandler would trim their fees to form a star-studded ensemble. "I guess in the beginning we all thought everybody would just have to work for two weeks, so we could afford these deals," says Zucker. "But then when we laid out the schedule, it was four or five or six weeks for each actor." He quickly set his sights...
...what works best? In its new study, the exercise council evaluates the popular Ab-Doer. A lengthy TV infomercial promises that just 10 minutes a day performing such maneuvers as "Body Boogies" and "Good Mornings" will "trim those abs the fun and easy way without diets." Steven Loy, professor of kinesiology at California State University, Northridge, tested those claims by measuring the electrical activity produced by the abdominals during three Ab-Doer maneuvers. He and his colleagues then compared the results with those generated during traditional exercises. They determined that the muscles were no more active, and in some cases...
...time. In the series opener, sophomore lefthander Kenon Ronz was not at all his usual self, and sophomore reliever Barry Wahlberg fared even worse, as Dartmouth jumped out to an 11-1 lead. The Crimson bats rallied for seven runs in its next trip to the plate to trim the deficit to 11-8, but Dartmouth's advantage proved too great. The Crimson fell...
...financially motivated mid-level position cuts that came last week may help Radcliffe trim expenses in the short term...
...about the importance of place in college life. To be sure, most Harvard students probably do their reading in the Quincy House library or their suites in Mather, if they do their reading at all. But all of us take our classes amid red brick buildings with crisp white trim, fountains, statues and lavish green lawns. This grandeur is not solely designed to impress potential donors. Rather, the loveliness of the campus mingles with and enhances learning—the reason that critic David Denby has argued that beautiful surroundings are vitally important for education. The columns of Widener bespeak...