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Every so often, a writer catches lightning in a bottle. Williamson's magic moment came last December, when millions of shrieking teens watched Drew Barrymore try to guess the original killer in Friday the 13th and, ahem, choose incorrectly. Cannily crammed with the likes of Neve, Courteney and Skeet (if these names seem meaningless, you're just in an obsolete demographic) and directed with twisted bravura by the incomparable Wes Craven, Scream became the highest grossing horror movie ever, reviving the moribund slasher genre and lifting its author into Hollywood's screenwriting elite. When the Williamson-scripted I Know What...
Jiang Zemin kept his cool, displayed his sense of humor and spoke louder--literally and metaphorically--than the noises from the rally. He did a good job educating his audience on China's pre-1989 history, which dates back, ahem, 5,000 years, and he proved himself a charismatic leader who respects Harvard and certainly deserves Harvard's respect...
...masses with his boundless affection for the operating system (OS) whose commercial viability he had spent much of his adult life systematically undermining. "We think Apple makes a huge contribution to the computer industry," Gates assured the room, respectfully observing the taboo against speaking ill of the dead--or, ahem, the gravely ailing. Let's put it this way: you sure didn't hear the man extolling the wonders of Apple a few years ago, when the Mac still had market relevance. Gates celebrating Apple today is like the Department of the Interior celebrating the spotted owl by fencing...
...faith, if he has it, is nothing worse than self-deception. It is his alone. Pollsters will tell you that most smokers want to quit. Maybe so. But the fact remains that many of them continue to smoke, and for many reasons. Those of an earlier generation--those few (ahem) still alive--began because Bogart and Bacall did it, and Bette Davis too: because it was cool and widely accepted. But later generations, at least those come of age after the unavoidable 1964 Surgeon General's report, found a different reason: because it was cool and widely reviled. Smoking today...
...reading period. It was an unbroken stretch of days in which you could embark upon the process of psychologically preparing yourself for those fearsome three hour trials by fire that lay ahead. The weather that spring of my first year was better than this semester and I was, ahem, perhaps less than attentive to my studies during the term than I should have been...