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Some of you, no doubt, are deservedly feeling very good, because you know what the immediate future will bring. We all know the statistics. The overwhelming numbers of Harvard graduates who dive straight into career-track positions at banks or consulting firms or head directly to top graduate schools. This is a safe and understandable decision, particularly in a tough economy. Among many choices, these seem to be the most challenging and most prestigious, the ones made by so many successful alums before. They also represent a clear next step, at a time when nothing seems clear...
...you’re willing to dive into the depths of the pseudo-punk faux-postmodern world of The Garage, you’ll be rewarded with a great cup of ice cream for around $4. The vanilla ice cream here was great and boasted a nice, natural flavor, but after half a cup we felt ourselves yearning for a sweeter experience...
...most foreigners, however, Aceh's main attraction is its stunning natural heritage, starting with beaches like Lampuuk. Just outside Banda Aceh, it has a bay with golden sand and crystal waters. Weh Island, a short ferry ride away, ranks among the region's best dive spots. While skimpy swimwear is definitely out, alcohol is sold - discreetly - to non-Muslim guests at a few beach resorts and Banda Aceh hotels. A bigger problem, admits one tourism official, is the cannabis that grows in abundance in Aceh's hills and unerringly finds its way to beaches where foreign surfers congregate...
Elsewhere in Box-Office Bad News, the weepie Remember Me, featuring The Twilight Saga's gentleman vampire Robert Pattinson, executed a steep (59%) dive from last week's wan debut and crashed into 10th place. Pattinson's Twilight inamorata, Kristen Stewart, is playing Joan Jett in the musical biopic The Runaways, which opened in limited release to a so-so $803,000 on 244 screens. (It's really a supporting role to Dakota Fanning's Cherie Currie.) So far, Pattinson is finding it hard to attract fans when he's not in his giant fantasy-film franchise; in Star Wars...
...Leslie hid in the bedroom all night until the next morning when she discovered the source in her basement. "Every flashlight that [the men had] taken across the street - and only those flashlights - had exploded into a million pieces," says Leslie. The exploding bulbs included that in a dive lamp able to go down to 300 feet; a C battery was also bent in half. "The ones that had not been taken across the street were just fine...