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...largest and longest-running cheese markets, starting in 1622. The commercial trade ceased 15 years ago, but the frantic buying and selling is re-enacted every Friday from April to September for more than 100,000 tourists annually. At 10 a.m. in Waag Square, in front of the historic weigh house that now incorporates the Dutch Cheese Museum ($3.30; (31-72) 511 42 84; www.kaasmuseum.nl), a local rings a bell to open trading. Before bargaining begins, the buyer sniffs the cheese, bashes it with his hand to ensure the holes are the right size, and plunges a borer into...
...tried prosecuting the film from every angle -not surprising, since it was a popular porn movie produced by the Mafia. One federal agent quoted a Peraino underling as saying of the Deep Throat take: "We've got so much money ... we don't even count it any more.... We weigh it." The movie reports that "Deep Throat was made for just $25,000. It grossed more than $600 million." (That last stat is a flexible one, like a guy's street-corner boast about his penis size. It's a tough sell, considering that the movie was banned...
...deep-space war between humans and the Cylons, a race of robots created by mankind that can disguise themselves in human form. In an intriguing twist on the old series, the new Cylons have a religion and justify their genocide as punishment for humans' corruption. The humans must weigh fear vs. liberty and military vs. civilian authority. As a spacebound parable of the war on terrorism, this series hits eerily close to Earth...
Straight Lead: The faculty have spoken, but now students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) have a chance to weigh in on President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership of the University as well...
...faculty have spoken, but now students at Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) have a chance to weigh in on President Lawrence H. Summers’ leadership of the University as well...