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...them a student rate.” Due to strict policies within the UA program concerning employee-press communication, it is difficult to ascertain whether some or all workers have been asked to work fewer hours in response to the truncated schedule. But a University-wide emphasis on cost cutting, however, seems to indicate that placing additional workers on weekday shifts in compensation for the lost time is unlikely. —Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached at emdussom@fas.harvard.edu...
...Battling Mickey's kids and the monsters was Russell Crowe, whose sex-politics-and-espionage thriller State of Play, based on the compulsively-watchable BBC series, took in $14.1 million in its opening weekend. The other new wide release, which will end up sixth overall, was Crank: High Voltage, with B-movie Brit Brillo pad Jason Statham reprising his role from the 2006 Crank as a hit man who'll die if he slows down. Sort of like Speed, only instead of a grimy bus, it's a Limey cuss. Crank 2's haul was a demure $6.5 million...
...three debut films offered a wide choice of leading men - winsome Zac, action-toughie Jason and Oscar-man Russell - who appeal to three different movie constituencies: tween girls, slightly older males and adults only. The box-office results tell us a bit about who can be counted on to go to the movies to see their favorites...
Nevertheless, one longtime Republican analyst and numbers cruncher, Royal Masset, believes Hutchison will defeat Perry and be the next governor of Texas. Polls suggest she has an early lead, and Masset points to her overwhelming victories in the past as evidence of her wide support not only among Republicans but also among independents, who can vote in Texas primaries. He has urged Perry to forgo another gubernatorial bid. Masset believes that Perry should be content with one major accomplishment: helping to create more jobs in Texas than the rest of the U.S. during his tenure. "Your place in history...
...faced with an array of distasteful choices as a result of the global fiscal crisis,” wrote committee chairman Charles A. Murphy in a letter to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. “It is impossible to make budget cuts of this magnitude without adversely affecting wide portions of our society.”After the state House debates and revises the budget, the state Senate will draft a budget of their own. A final plan for state funds will be a compromise between these two and will be submitted to Patrick by July 1. The budget...