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...domesticate cats, which they regarded as sacred. Mertz carries on the tradition. In her two-story solarium, dappled with sunlight, it seems as though cats are everywhere, strutting and preening as household gods. "They're all a little mad at me, because yesterday was the day for the vet," confides Mertz. In all, there are five felines: Dorothy, Nefret, Emerson, Ellery and Sethos...
Some schools, including Georgia, are now hiring search firms to vet prospective coaches and give them a chance to come clean about potential problems. That may not be the kind of thing the coaches want to discuss at a job interview, but better there than at a press conference. --Reported by Paige Bowers and Greg Fulton/Atlanta
...roommates over the years agreed. Oh how wrong we were. For future reference, although pets are fun and a great distraction from schoolwork, they are also expensive, hellish to move on vacations, and incredibly time-consuming. College students have no permanent housing, no car to drive to the vet, no other room in which to put said pet and not enough time to appropriately care for pets. In addition to light and cheer, pets add a good deal of stress to dorm life. The Handbook knows what it’s talking about...
...true hellish potential of dormlife until one has spent the night before two final exams chasing a four-foot long ball python with a syringe hanging out of its abdomen around a dorm room. Charlie was not amused. Neither was I. After 12 more shots, hundreds of dollars on vet bills and many subway trips to the vet hospital with a snake poking around my backpack, Charlie passed away. I breathed a guilty sigh of relief...
...HOURS. This adaptation of Michael Cunningham’s Pulitzer-winning novel is unapologetically Oscar bait, a solemn, century-spanning “what is life?” treatise backed by a triumvirate of A-list actresses (Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Julianne Moore) and directed by Billy Elliot vet Stephen Daldry. Yet for a film of its ostensible weight, The Hours certainly takes easy shots at its lead trio—three colossally boring straw women who rediscover their lost vitality in drearily obvious ways as the picture progresses. Perhaps The Hours’ greatest value rests...