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...play kicks off with Brad addressing what seems to be an empty crib, declaring his plans to leave home with his new girlfriend in a last bid for independence. Immediately, the Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf alarm begins to sound: Is there a dead baby behind this family's dysfunction? Naturally, there is--though this fact isn't fully revealed until the play's climax, it's obvious right from the beginning, and it makes for a pretty flimsy plot device, not to mention a derivative...
...Republican Party has reacted with alarm to the left's counterattack. It has sued the AFL-CIO to stop its ads, though nothing will be resolved until after the elections. It has unleashed millions of dollars' worth of its own commercials that accuse the unions of trying to buy control of the House. The G.O.P. hopes to create a backlash against what one of its ads derides as "Big Labor bosses, Big Money, big lies, big liberals." Freshmen are repeating the line like a mantra in their stump speeches...
With all the weeping, wailing and gnashing of teeth heard all across the campus recently, you'd think that Harvard students heard stallions braying and trampling hooves pounding on asphalt as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse gallopped up J.F.K. Street. But their cause for alarm was actually Harvard's slip from first to third place in the annual U.S. News and World Report college rankings. Apparently, students at Stanford are also reacting hysterically to their tumble from fourth to sixth place...
Steen said he did not know whether the alarm was left unarmed when the library was closed or if it was deactivated in the course of the theft. He was unable to speculate about why the alarm might have been left...
...needed: a check list, a syllabus, a hand to hold just as we were letting go. I'll admit that armed with The List, we all thought we were studs. It truly was immense to the eye. I've seen some lists that have the obvious needs: sheets, computer, alarm clock, towels. I've even seen some flashes of creativity in lists that extolled the virtues of packing and shipping such things as flip-flops and Imodium A-D caplets...