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...place its empathy with. There are the five Lisbon sisters, their two parents, the numerous neighborhood admirers, the unidentified narrator, Trip Fontaine, etc. The audience has trouble keeping count of all these faces and names, and no character materializes as the focus of the story. A multi-faceted character approach as a literary convention was a critical success, because Jeffrey Eugenides could verbally and descriptively acquaint the audience with the characters in novel form; but when utilized in film, a director is left with condensed screen time, visual cues, and limited dialogue to get at exposition and character development...
...further exploitative programming, but the "Multi-Millionaire" event proves that even careful background checks can miss something, and in the high-stress situations of "Survivor" and "Big Brother," even a small oversight in the psychological or physical tests can explode into a serious issue...
...smell the burning rubber? Savor it - it's the scent of the speeding U.S. economy squealing to a much-needed slowdown. As if to bolster the prevailing psychology of caution, the Commerce Department reported Tuesday that housing starts on multi-unit buildings, a key indicator, were down to a six-year low in March, a decidedly large drop from December's record high. Simply put, the plunge in starts means that fewer builders are breaking ground on apartment and condominium complexes...
Cochran has won several multi-million dollar verdicts for victims of police brutality and is currently representing the family of Patrick Dorismond, an unarmed black man shot and killed by an undercover police officer in New York last month...
Such a rift between Faculty members and central administration bodes ill for the institution as a whole. If the University is considering allocating large sums of money, for example, to relocate a graduate school to Allston, develop distance learning initiatives or create a multi-million dollar computer system to centralize finances, faculty members should be, at the very least, consulted, if not actively involved in the decision-making process. Instead, the FAS committee's report noted, "Major decisions involving the commitment of substantial resources...are sometimes first discovered by faculty from the local press." Some FAS members have even suggested...