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...Roger Ebert's Overlooked Film Festival, that's precisely the kind of underdog spirit the crowd lives for - a spirit driven in part by their hunger for great films, but also partly by a desire to thumb their noses at movie studio executives who claim to know what audiences want. As Ebert said during a post-film discussion, reacting to a suggestion that a studio didn't think one of the festival's 12 selected titles would appeal to the youth market: "We cannot be held captive to a bunch of illiterate 16-year-olds...
...There’s always issues of addiction and there’s people who are driven to take it because they’re stressed out, but that said I don’t think that doctors necessarily have the authority to judge who needs it or who doesn’t need them,” Steven says...
...TF” originally stood for “Titty Fucking.”And so, that’s all for us. As we described in our first column way back in September, the closing scene to Prefontaine features Pre’s lifeless body being driven around the track in a hearse as a crowd chants “Pre! Pre! Pre!” and his coach eulogizes: “Pre ran every race like it was his last. Well, this is his last. This is the Bell Lap for Steve Prefontaine.”While...
...polls than devising a genuine solution to our oil addiction. They seek to find the proverbial silver bullet, unwilling to face the hard truth that our gasoline problem is not amenable to simplistic panaceas. But so far, Congress’s fixes have been impotent at best, its lobby-driven debate pusillanimous at worst. Americans deserve better...
Four of Harvard’s most successful wrestlers last season competed in the University Nationals hosted by Northwestern University last weekend, driven by the zeal to improve their skills on the mat even in the off-season. Looking to use this opportunity as a springboard going into next season, junior tri-captains Bode Ogunwole and Max Meltzer, junior Robbie Preston, and sophomore Bobby Latessa all competed in the tournament, which served as the qualifying event for the World University Championships, where wrestlers face some of the world’s best competition. Finalists in the tournament also qualified...