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...Downey prepped for three weeks for his one-hour screen test for Iron Man. "You run [the scene] until your subconscious can cough it up with ease," Downey says. "Then you run it to where, if you were woken up in the middle of the night, you could probably say it backwards. Then you write the whole thing out illegibly and see if you can scream through it as fast as you can, while only having a rough reference of what it is because it's written out like chicken scratch." Oh, and then if you're Downey, you probably...
...uglier aspects of human relationships. But we could perhaps take it as good news, especially for the many Harvard undergraduates aspiring to positions of power in the public sphere. Desperate for a mate? With political power and prestige alone, one will almost certainly find a marriage that withstands the test of time, however unhappily. We can only hope, though, that in the name of love, people will try a little harder...
...himself, Zell said his zeal for risk taking and his desire to excel drove him to succeed. “I have always believed that everybody on this earth has a responsibility,” Zell said. “I think that responsibility is to test their limits. I’ve spent my whole life testing my limits. Can I do this? Can I do something that no one else has ever done? Can I do it faster? That’s always been the driving force. Money is only a way of keeping score...
Future generations of students may arrive less prepared for college, following the discontinuation of four Advanced Placement (AP) exams. The College Board—the organization that administers tests like the SAT and AP exams—announced earlier this month that it will cancel four AP tests after the 2008-2009 school year: AP Latin Literature, AP French Literature, AP Computer Science AB, and AP Italian. For three of these courses, the College Board offers another AP exam in the same subject area. AP French Language and AP Latin: Vergil will continue to be offered after these changes...
...start the season against Cornell],” said captain and varsity four-seat Pat Mulcahy. “It’s always a difficult way to start the season, because you know they’re going to be fast. But it’s a nice test of speed. It’s a tough way to start, but we came away with some good information.”The Crimson varsity, composed of five sophomores, two juniors, and two seniors, returned just one member of last year’s varsity eight in senior five-seat...