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Most antihero movies wuss out. Studios figure that audiences need someone to root for, that the real Larry Flynt, say, would be too unpleasant to watch for two hours. But the TNT mini-series George Wallace (Aug. 24 and 26, 8 p.m. ET), like its subject, isn't afraid to...
BETTER DRUGS Researchers have long known that a brain chemical called serotonin plays an important role in triggering migraine headaches. For reasons that are still unclear, serotonin sometimes floods the blood vessels of the brain, causing them to constrict. The body then overreacts, sending serotonin levels plummeting and forcing the...
The city of Roswell, N.M. (pop. 49,000), is the birthplace of Demi Moore. It is also home to the nation's largest mozzarella plant. On warm spring nights, visitors deplaning onto the tarmac at the local airport may be struck, in a not necessarily unpleasant way, by the rich...
The sophomore year is a trying one: one in which directed, challenging and often unpleasant work replaces the merely exploratory first-year learning; one in which the novelty of spending six hours per day in the dining hall wears off; one in which the Boston weather becomes just another variable...
Harvard can be an unpleasant place, wearing even the most durable students down. But at the end of day, we know why we keep coming back for more. The toil of inexplicably long hours spent in the library produces an education, and in most cases a better person. The smiling...