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Riding the wave of recent public sentiment, Fox has pushed up the release of its new action thriller, Behind Enemy Lines to Nov. 30. Set in Bosnia as NATO is about to pull out with a peace treaty in hand, top billed actor Owen Wilson plays a Navy navigator shot down by unknown Eastern Europeans after he spots and photographs them in a scene that was not meant for the United States’ eyes. While his pilot is executed, Wilson must stay alive in the wintry landscape of Bosnia while being pursued. As Wilson’s commanding officer...
...words as if they were life preservers, futilely attempting to keep their heads above water, eventually drowning in their desperation. To Mamet, the world is a cruel joke; some people are in on it and some aren’t, but they all try to believe they can pull themselves through, mostly by projecting a sort of intense overconfidence that is betrayed by the desolation of their breakneck, endlessly jargon-filled speech...
...childish nature of the Harry Potter series appears to be a strong pull. Lautz comments, “It provides a good escape from the reality of school work.” Brown concurs, since “it was only the second movie I’ve seen [while at Harvard].” Many workaholics seeking to opt out of the daily grind for a few hours named Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone as their distraction of choice in recent weeks. Lautz himself “skipped three classes to see the movie...
...these scholarships hurt the incentive system, we can insert more creative policies to keep students working at the tippy-top of their ability. Each semester we can thin the herd by culling the underachievers. If you know you will be expelled if you don’t pull a 250th in that Core, you will start working hard. By cutting out the lazy, we would make Harvard a more prestigious University, where people do their best work, or as the weakest link, they leave—goodbye. But why stop there...
...We’d pull within four or five points and then one of their girls would hit a three,” Tubridy said. “That jump in the difference would kill our momentum. It just stings when they hit a three when you’re in the middle...