Action film blends humor and smarts


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What would you do to get your life back? Would you steal it? The Losers would. For the special operations team codenamed “the Losers,” it was an average mission — survey an arms dealer’s Bolivian compound for an air strike and come back home. When its CIA handler Max (Jason Patric) betrays it, though, the […]

Stranded in Europe at the mercy of ash


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It’s midnight on a Sunday as I write my very last column of the semester from a computer at a hostel in Prague. Only at this time of night can I avoid the dirty looks I’d normally get for commandeering the sole machine with Internet access. On a computer without Microsoft Office, Google Docs has […]

In good spirits


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Local students make colorful pinwheels during Spirits in Action Day, held on McCarthy Quad on Saturday. More than 150 participants attended the festival, which was hosted by 250 USC student volunteers. Spirits in Action is a non-profit organization run by USC students that strives to empower local students with disabilities.

Conflict between Mays and Carroll convoluted


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A lot of things that happen in sports are unpredictable and unforeseeable. It comes with the territory, I guess. We are trained to believe anything’s possible in the world of sports — on or off the field. But every once in a while you get something so odd, so unprecedented, that you are a little […]