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Mr. and Mrs. Smith
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie play John and Jane Smith: a boring married couple who come home to each other after a long day, share dinner, go to bed and don’t ask too many questions. It turns out that John and Jane are the best assassins of their respective organizations and were sent to the same target in hopes of killing each other.
Weird News
Airline makes trolley dollies swim for their jobs
A Croatian airline is under fire for making would-be stewardesses strip down to swimsuits and show their skills in the water.
Officials at Dubrovnik Airlines say the staff has to be fully trained for all situations and have put out job ads saying that being able to swim is a fundamental qualification for the job.
Stepping forward
The sounds of feet stomping, hands clapping, and voices chanting in unison will resonate this weekend throughout the Alltel Pavilion at the Stuart C. Siegel Center, marking the return of the annual Fall Block Step Show. But after the show, there’s no VCU afterparty.
Reality TV rules
Think college is tough? Try reality television. In the cutthroat, inundated world of scripted – yet real – shows, the shelf life for a star is short. Nonetheless, Mike “The Miz” Mizanin of MTV’s “The Real World: Back to New York” has managed to outlast many of his counterparts.
Arabic Film Festival starts this weekend
After 800 people from the VCU and Richmond community attended the festival last year, co-coordinators Hanan Abed and Jaime Bennett decided to turn it into an annual event. The Second Annual Arabic Film Festival will take place at the Grace Street Theater this weekend.
Candidates for attorney general, lieutenant governor debate at VCU
One week after the candidates for Virginia governor debated at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Monroe Park Campus, the candidates for the other two top offices squared off to let potential voters know why they should be elected.
Democrat R. Creigh Deeds, a senator from Bath County, and Republican Robert McDonnell, a delegate from Virginia Beach, were queried Wednesday by panelists about their platforms to become the commonwealth’s next attorney general.
The Commonwealth Times hits the streets: Safety on campus
1) How safe do you feel on the Monroe Park Campus? Why or why not?
2) How would you compare VCU’s safety to other college campuses that you’ve visited?
3) What type of precautions, if any, do you take to help you feel safe around the Monroe Park Campus?
4) All campuses have crime.
Community comes together at vigil for Behl
Candles were held high and prayers were said Monday evening at Monroe Park.
Students, faculty and the Richmond City Police participated in a candlelight and prayer vigil for missing student Taylor Behl.
Behl disappeared Sept. 5, and her disappearance has been a wake-up call to VCU students and the city of Richmond.
In the News
Floridians evacuate as
Tropical Storm Rita nears
KEY WEST, Fla. – Thousands of residents fled the Florida Keys as Tropical Storm Rita barreled toward land, poised to grow into a categroy 4 hurricane with a potential 9-foot storm surge and sparking fears it could eventually ravage the hobbled Gulf Coast.
Poverty and Katrina
Saturday, Sept. 17, I stopped at the River City Diner at 1712 E. Main St. I had woken up on the wrong side of bed. I’ve been feeling this way for while now, and this was just another one of those days when I felt so overwhelmingly depressed that the thought of even making coffee for myself was too much of a chore.