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...working." The equation hadn't always seemed so simple. When Howard called the election on Aug. 29, he went into the campaign with his mantle askew, hounded by an increasingly confident Opposition over claims by a former advisor that he had lied over the so-called children-overboard affair during the 2001 election campaign, and briefly caught up in an embarrassing public debate over whether he should submit to a lie-detector test over the issue. Labor believed the election should be fought on voter distrust of the political veteran, but Howard skillfully turned their jibes around. The election would...
...realized, walking back, that my charges of fascism had been a little hysterical. Actually, the whole affair reminded me of nothing so much as that spring afternoon on the football field five years ago. The problem now, as then, was not motive: there were enough good intentions on the Weeks Footbridge and on my high school’s Leo Shields Football Field to cover the road from here to Hell in asphalt several times over. The problem was that we were window-dressing. The problem was the vague sense of self-satisfaction that hovered over us on the football...
Life lurches from sweet and fresh to embarrassing and awful (much like adolescence). The story lines are bad teen-soap retreads--Ben has a fling with a teacher, and Dino catches his mother having an affair, both plots straight from Dawson's Creek Season 1. But its characters are much more believable--Dino, Ben and Jonathan aren't miniature adults, they're kids. When Dino finds his mom cheating, he's not just angry; he's scared, above all for his dad (D.B. Sweeney), a good-hearted sad sack who hates his pencil-pushing job. Fox's The O.C. transcended...
...southern rock outfit Kings of Leon is a family affair. The group is comprised of the three Followill brothers and their cousin. And they take the name Leon from the names of their father and paternal grandfather. But before the quartet shows off its Nashville-flavored tunes, Tennessee’s the Features takes the stage as the opening act. The psychedelic rock group recently saw the release of its debut full length, Exhibit A. 18+. Tickets $15. 7 p.m. Axis, 13 Lansdowne Street, Boston...
...suffering martyr who has made it through the school of hard knocks and is turning around to take another long lap. Even real-life lovebirds Theron and Townsend fail to make their on-screen relationship believable. It’s impossible to either identify or sympathize with their tumultuous affair...