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...fact, the two get along so well that sometimes it’s hard to believe their characters are supposed to be married. As the two fend off crooked cops, mob bosses, and tattooed criminals, all the while cracking jokes, their romance seems to be the least important element in the film. So when the two do go through the motions of couples in other romantic comedies—including moments of communication breakdown, self-awareness, and atonement—they feels out of place and slow the movie down considerably...

Author: By Lauren B. Paul, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Date Night | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

...aspect that has cost Harvard dearly this season is allowing opponents to string together crushing runs. Georgetown used a 6-1 run to help it defeat the Crimson, 13-12, Brown was able to fend off Harvard, 13-11, with a 5-1 first quarter, and Duke’s 8-0 first quarter was all the offense it needed in defeating the Crimson...

Author: By Colin Whelehan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Lacrosse Falls Just Short in Ithaca | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...Harvard was able to fend off the home team for some time, extending its lead to seven at 37-30 with 4:27 left...

Author: By Martin Kessler, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Men's Basketball Loses Lead, Ends Record Season on Sour Note | 3/18/2010 | See Source »

Common Spaces: The Dunster Grille is also a popular late-night hangout. Serving up a delicious array of unhealthy snacks seven nights a week, the Grille is an enjoyable and cheap way to fend off those late night munchies. The uber-friendly House Masters also hold frequent open houses and ice cream bashes, featuring home-made food and desserts, not to mention a kick-ass mango sorbet...

Author: By Melody Y. Hu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Housing Market Reviews: Dunster House | 3/8/2010 | See Source »

Chinchilla, as a result, has had to fend off suggestions by Solis and other political foes that she's a puppet of Arias, under whom she served as Vice President, and his social-democratic National Liberation Party, to which she belongs as well. The daughter of a former Costa Rican comptroller general, Chinchilla earned a master's degree in public policy at Georgetown University in Washington in the 1980s. But while she often wore indigenous fashions as a college student and criticized the Reagan Administration's involvement in Central America's conflicts, she is a social conservative, opposing abortion rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Costa Rica's Generational and Gender Changes | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

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