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...presummer blockbuster like Mission: Impossible III, confected by TV auteur J.J. Abrams (Alias, Lost), is inevitably a commentary on every action movie that preceded it. Such an endeavor brings out the scholar in its audience and the pedagogue in its reviewers. For real students of the form, straight questions about M:i:III are too easy. (What film is this film most like? True Lies. Next.) Instead try these five mini-essays...
...drawn to an end, the initial buzz from Opening Day has started to wear off. We’ve all begun to settle into a routine.Finding a comfortable routine is especially important for a baseball player, since you are more or less doing the same thing for five straight months. And as a minor leaguer, a good portion of your routine inevitably rests atop eight big wheels. As I write this article I am sitting through one of our four bus rides this week. Our bus pulled out of the stadium in Lakewood, N.J. at about...
...officer who asked should’ve known better. The two Arctic weather-proof tents pitched in the middle of the Malkin Athletic Center quad were a dead give away, but it was too late: the hapless member of Harvard’s finest had just become an unwitting straight man. “Well, sir,” said Corey M. Rennell ’07, a Crimson photo editor, drawing out his words for added effect, to the delight of the eleven other students gathered around the makeshift bonfire...
...ball in his first collegiate start. Harvard head coach Joe Walsh will likely use a combination of pitchers today, with the effect of using the occasion as a midweek tune-up against live hitting. No. 1 starter Shawn Haviland, named Ivy League Pitcher of the Week for the second straight week yesterday, will likely make an appearance. —THE CRIMSON STAFF
...director of the track and field program at Iona College, is a 1999 graduate of Columbia University. In college, he starred as a two-time All-Ivy runner and Ivy League Heptagonal champion in the 3200-meter relay. In five years at Iona, Saretsky led the Gaels to four straight top-10 finishes at the NCAAs. —THE CRIMSON STAFF