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Lucy (Sandra Bullock) is a lonely, orphaned, Chicago Transit Authority worker who becomes infatuated with Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher); a commuter she has never spoken to. On Christmas Day, Lucy rescues Peter after he falls unconscious onto the tracks of an approaching train. Due to an incredulous plot twist, Lucy is mistaken for Peter's fiancée at the hospital...
...While You Were Sleeping" attempts to be a romantic comedy with farsical plot twists. Most probably, only your stomach will twist with each painful attempt to craft a cute, witty, clever and plausible plot. In fact, so much of the film revolves around overheard and misconstrued conversations that you'll think you just bought an eight dollar ticket to see "Three's Company: The Movie...
...increasingly from the mainstream American public. As Mansfield noted, "the policies of affirmative action are suddenly coming into question in a remarkable way." The argument against affirmative action focuses on the claim that affirmative action is no more than a type of reverse racism. In an amazingly ironic twist, the system that was established to overcome the effects of group generalizations now more than ever looks at people solely as members of some larger ethnic community. U.S. News and World Report, in a collection of snippets under the title "PC: Almost dead, still funny" quoted a letter sent...
...even moderate Pakistanis, who felt their government kowtowed to Washington by extraditing Ramzi Yousef within 24 hours of his arrest. Wrote commentator Ayaz Amir in the respected national newsmagazine the Herald: "The U.S. may do as it pleases in Pakistan--cut off aid, pressure it on its nuclear program, twist its arms over the drug trade, use it as it did during the heady days of the Afghan jihad--and then discard it like a used lemon...
...Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 must have recently seen Demi Moore's latest movie, "Disclosure," in which a female employer sexually harasses her male employee. Mansfield's recent contention at a Faculty meeting that Harvard's sexual harassment guidelines ignore the issue of female seduction is a whimsical twist on that bit of fiction...