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...wildly raucous, satiric tone. It is Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, whose guide is a purported TV host and "sixth most famous man in Kazakhstan" of the former Soviet Union. Borat is the nom de guerrilla-humor of Sacha Baron Cohen, aka Ali G. - as HBO viewers know, and many millions more will, when this deeply sick, utterly irresistible film opens in theaters...
...name Don Stewart-Whyte is an unlikely fit with any racial-profiler's description of your typical Qaeda-inspired terror suspect. Yet, Stewart-Whyte, aka Abdul Waheed, who is believed to be either 19 or 21 and to have converted to Islam within the past year after what some neighbors describe as a troubled adolescence, has been reported by the British media as one of the 24 people arrested in connection with a plot to blow up U.S.-bound airliners. Nor was he the only convert among the named suspects. Among those on a list of 19 suspects named...
...wiry little man-child with a voice that sounded like his novocaine hadn't worn off yet. But children adored Pee-wee Herman (aka Paul Reubens), critics praised him and adults delighted in discovering double-entendres and inside jokes on his Saturday morning kids? TV show Pee-wee?s Playhouse, which ran from 1986 to 1991 on CBS. Pee-wee is back - this time for grown-ups - in all 45 original episodes, airing on Cartoon Network?s Adult Swim Monday thru Thursday nights at 11 p.m. TIME's Jeanne McDowell talked to Reubens about the return of the Playhouse...
...first time ever, Social Analysis 10 (aka Ec 10) is a divisible course—that is, students don’t have to sit through Beren Professor of Economics N. Gregory Mankiw’s year long class and can opt to take the one semester only. Non-economics concentrators who are interested in taking part of this introductory class will surely rejoice that they aren’t stuck for a full year...
...Those of us who wasted fruitful hours filling in the blanks in all these publications determined that Number Place was a pleasant enough diversion, if not nearly so demanding or compelling as Cross Sums (aka Sum Totals), a crossword with numbers, or that sublimely torturous form of the crossword known as the Cryptic, about which more later...