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Updated Friday, April 5, 2002, at 3:30 PM

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Adam Baer is a culture critic for the New York Sun and contributor to the New York Times Book Review, Travel + Leisure, and Slate, among other publications.

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Stills from: National Lampoon's Van Wilder © Patty Arpaia/ Artisan Pictures Inc.; Big Trouble ©2002 Touchstone Pictures; High Crimes ©2002 Twentieth Century Fox and Regency Enterprises. All rights reserved.