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...residents’ complaint represents another twist in the University’s nearly three-year-long quest to take over the site of the apartment complex just south of Ohiri Field, which has been trumpeted as a spot for either graduate buildings or a cultural facility in Harvard’s future campus across the Charles River...

Author: By Joseph M. Tartakoff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fate of Allston Apartments Remains in Flux | 10/19/2005 | See Source »

Though you write like a true cynic, you show the integrity to actually find out for yourself, see what is there, and speak what you see. So many other pieces just follow the norm of bashing Scientology and twist all the facts to suit their pre-conceived or antagonistic ideas. My applause to you for your stopping at the edge and refusing to jump off the cliffs of insanity with the other journalistic lemmings...

Author: By Luba Meltzer | Title: Not Following The Norm Made Scientology Piece Valuable | 10/17/2005 | See Source »

...penchant for absurd plot construction, which won over college-aged cult fans in “Donnie Darko,” simply serves to overcomplicate an already thinly stretched concept. At the unnecessary and melodramatic sexuality between Domino and Choco (Domino was actually bisexual), a plot twist involving Afghani liberation, and the segment on “The Jerry Springer Show,” one can’t help but think: “What the hell was the point of that? Go back to showing half-naked Keira shooting Vietnamese thugs...

Author: By Kristina M. Moore, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Domino | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

...unexpected death, he leaves behind his botched attempt to take his life and travels to his father’s tranquil Kentucky home, Elizabethtown. On the way, he meets kooky flight attendant Claire Colburn (Kirsten Dunst), who refuses to leave him alone and, in an Unexpected Twist, teaches him to see the world in a new and clearer way.Drew and Claire’s burgeoning love is handled rather clumsily by Crowe, which is surprising considering he is the auteur behind classic romances like “Say Anything” and “Jerry Maguire...

Author: By Patrick R. Chesnut, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Elizabethtown | 10/13/2005 | See Source »

This season Bruckheimer tries to go six for six, with an almost frighteningly astute twist on his procedural formula. In Close to Home (Tuesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), Annabeth Chase (Jennifer Finnigan) is a prosecutor and new mom who works on horrible cases in a leafy suburb. She has just returned from maternity leave--we first see her being awakened by her crying baby--but gets little support from her career-focused co-workers. "You have got to stop making decisions with your hormones," her (female) boss warns her. But her mom status is also an asset to her department, giving...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Scaring the Suburbs | 10/9/2005 | See Source »

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