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...community, confering inferior status on immigrants who are "just off the boat." It clearly references non-assimilation in its use of a name more at home in the old homeland. In fact, in different locales, the same slur isn't Guido: in Chicago the term is "Mario" and in Toronto it goes by "Gino." Guido is far less offensive, among Italian-Americans, than another G word, which is also used in the names of countries in equatorial west Africa...
Rivers Cuomo '99-'06, the lead singer for the band Weezer, was on his tour bus coming from Toronto, Canada to Boston for Monday’s concert at Boston University. According to the driver, “the back end of the bus slid on ice, then went into the median and hit some reflective posts before crossing back over the highway, going over the guardrail and landing in a ditch.” Of course, if they had been driving on the “Island in the Sun” there would have been...
...screens, Up in the Air soared to a stratospheric $1.2 million. The Jason Reitman comedy-drama, starring George Clooney as a charming, rootless management consultant who flies around the country firing people, was deemed a front runner for the Best Picture Oscar after its premieres at the Telluride and Toronto film festivals. The National Board of Review, the first big group to announce its year-end awards, showered Up in the Air with four major laurels: best film, actor (Clooney), supporting actress (Anna Kendrick) and adapted screenplay. The picture, which comes to your neighborhood on Christmas Day, nudged two other...
Read "Clooney Soars in Two Films at Toronto Film Festival...
...little disappointed that Harvard didn’t have [a Quidditch team],” said Rush, a visiting undergraduate from Toronto and avid Harry Potter fan who playfully insists that she was recruited on a Quidditch scholarship...