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When President George W. Bush signed the “No Child Left Behind Act of 2002?? in January, the occasion was met with fanfare so great that he held media-blitz rallies in three different states in one day to trumpet his new legislative achievement and to share the victory with the bill’s legislative sponsors, including Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass...
...2002??s best film, Steven Spielberg’s critically debated and audience-panned A.I., was unsurprisingly ignored by the Academy (except for in the visual effects and score categories). The public’s (and the Academy’s) reaction to A.I. is indicative of a grander thought on the state of American cinema. A.I. was the only film last year that was in any way daring (except for perhaps the jarring L.I.E.), but not in the way traditionally, and quite annoyingly, associated with new stylings of cinema. It didn’t have violent deaths...
...very picture of the self-centered diva. “So Unsexy,” the most poignant track, is a gorgeous watercolor of the new Alanis Morissette. In 1995 screeches and finger-pointing would have dominated, while in 1998 she projected a self-reflective Zen mentality. However, 2002??s Under Rug Swept brings her inner conflict to a conscious level where Morisette herself can contemplate the ironies of being both arrogant and insecure. Further delving into Under’s ironies is “You Owe Me Nothing in Return,” in which Morissette...
...want to go, I could only cringe with disgust at the “Do” for fishies everywhere in the December Glamourscope. “Do make a wild New Year’s Eve resolution (yes, even ‘Get hitched in 2002??).” Whoa there, Glamour. I know this whole astrology thing is a big joke we inexplicably like to include in the morning paper and call 1-800 numbers about, but since when is it okay to slip a little tidbit like that into a harmless parenthesis. The reading...