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While summer is only a few days away, there’s just one more obstacle to surmount before you jet off to your wildest adventures—packing. And, as any upperclassman will tell you, getting your stuff into storage is an intricate art. Luckily, whether you’re one of those who hasn't thought about the need to pack and stow all your worldly possessions by Sunday at noon, or you’re still sitting in Lamont powerless to obey, we’ve got your back...
...certain point, I thought to myself: seriously, what the hell am I doing? I’m watching a TV show with my dad called “Rob and Big” in which two men fly a private jet to buy a baby bulldog that they outfit with bejewelled sweaters. This is ludicrous. I literally cannot believe this...
...battle over the emergency exit row seat, the subprime dining selection (assuming there is still choice by the time they get to you), the Twitter flight status updates, the arrival dinner, the planned drinks date, and the conference or company or checking account that is paying for the jet-setting. Now insert a volcanic eruption somewhere—say, Iceland—and rethink all of the above...
Suddenly the choreography turns into sauve qui peut: Airlines are in absolute disarray, expense accounts bill thousand-euro Eurostar tickets, the German chancellor buses from Rome back home, and, at the ever-so-fancy Dorchester Hotel tea promenade in London, one can be offered a private jet seat back to New York for only 10 thousand euros...
...relationship between the three ‘blood-brothers’ in “The Warlords” is a bromance of epic proportions. General Pang (Jet Li), Wu Yang (Takeshi Kaneshiro), and Er Hu (Andy Lau) travel together, share each other’s space, fight over women, and defend one another like characters in a typical Judd Apatow film. Their bromance is complicated, however, by the fact that they are three of the most powerful warlords in late-Qing dynasty China, and their brotherly spats result in starvation, massacre, and wholesale destruction of entire cities rather than...