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...course, limitations in genre or character type don’t have to equal boring movies. In the hands of a skilled writer, such limitations often yield greater creativity, as writers come up with new twists on old conventions. In Cusack’s case, witness Gross Pointe Blank, which took the romantic comedy genre (in which Cusack most comfortably walks) and tweaked it, hilariously, by making Cusack’s leading man an assassin. Unfortunately, for every inspired screenplay, there are hundreds of others that are content to play by the rules, re-staging old scenes and re-hashing...
...David B. Stevens ’03 and Gilbert B. Silverman ’03 were disappointed when last weekend’s trip to Boston College failed to yield the hot-chick-dance-floor-groping-followed-by-naked-sorority-pillow-fight-observing they were expecting. Commented Silverman, “I thought saying ‘Harvard’ loudly in the middle of the party would inspire nubile co-eds to ask me where I went to school and when I would like them to pleasure me orally, but instead all that happened...
...everything goes well, he says, the mutant protein might yield human therapies in a couple of years...
...volume of new business would overwhelm bankers, who'd no longer have a reason to drop rates aggressively. Already there's evidence that bankers are getting their fill. Since June, the decline in mortgage rates has not kept pace with the decline in the 10-year Treasury-bond yield, their benchmark...
...very different test of this nation’s willingness to defend its values at any cost, a Democrat by the name of Stephen Douglas approached Republican Abraham Lincoln with the words, “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.” The two were hardly friends, and yet there are times when the most bitter of political foes become brothers allied against a common enemy...