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...Whether it was sexual taboos in Lolita or individual and societal violence in A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick used his films to examine the unspoken problems in our modern world, to step back and look honestly at the issues no one wanted to confront in the open. We'll look for the same fierce realism in Eyes Wide Shut, his last movie, due in July and starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman (see clip below). In a way, Kubrick was the most moral of filmmakers because he was not afraid to be called immoral, not afraid to tred where audiences didn...
...weekends, the clubs specialize in drinking; the university's drinking policy is considered to be very lenient. Practice at the clubs is to stamp the hand of any student who shows Princeton ID. The stamp officially means the student is 21 and able to drink, whether they are really of age or not. But students think the university's drinking policy may become more restricted. This year, the university enforced a no-alcohol policy for the bicker clubs' initiation of their new members due to problems experienced during the bicker of some of the clubs last year. As Gardner explains...
...March of the sophomore year, linking up with their friends, they enter their chosen club. Two genres of clubs subsist. In the six "sign-in" clubs, students place their name on a list and gain entrance. If too many students show interest, the sign-in clubs hold lotteries. Whether or not prospective members get their first choice or not--in lottery situations they can place their name on the lists of several clubs--students are guaranteed to get into a club with up to 12 of their friends. At the other five "bicker" clubs, selective policies are implemented; students "punch...
...Whether you've just finished your thesis or your second expos paper, you deserve a break. A Spring Break. Lucky for you, it's little more than a week until this most legendary of vacations rolls around--just enough time to book a flight out of Cambridge. Better hustle, though; these deals are flying fast...
...private sector has all the incentive to get the job done right, but the government has none of those incentives. Bureaucrats get paid whether the government works or not, " says TIME assistant managing editor Philip Elmer-DeWitt. Nor is the government so red-faced with shame over its Y2K slip-up that it has resolved to turn over a new leaf -- or even name another self-imposed deadline. Still, don't let visions of muddled air traffic controllers dampen your New Year 2000 celebration plans yet. Cars will still run on highways, and planes -- knock on wood -- will still take...