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...Everyone Says I Love You All singing, all dancing, all talking, as they used to say. In Woody Allen's lovely flight of fancy, the singing is often kind of croaky, the dancing sort of klutzy and the dialogue pure Woody--the noises that psychologically aware, politically correct people make when they are at desperate sexual cross-purposes. But such folks are entitled to their romantic yearnings. This film's good-humored poignance--and high originality--lies in the contrast drawn between the characters' passionate desire to put a little music in their lives and their inability to carry...
...Mike Allen, a reporter for The Washington Post, said Harvard students should seek jobs at large papers and big stations...
...Harvard kids should definitely go straight to the big leagues," Allen said. "If nothing else, you're around bright people, and you'll be there when the opportunity to step in comes...
...Readers questioned The Crimson's credibility, since many of those young on staff editorials had connections to the Undergraduate Council and several of the candidates were Crimson editors. Candidates angry about receiving down arrows and being called WASPs, ugly or spoiled objected to "Crimson Wisdom" by Daniel C. Allen '97 and Andrew A. Green '98, a take-off of Newsweek's "Conventional Wisdom." But this year, as we experience a popular election for the second time, "Crimson Wisdom" came and went without reader comment, and only one candidate, Justin E. Porter '99, stopped me to say he felt shafted...
Even "Crimson Wisdom," the spoof that I took issue with last year for its placement in the staff editorial column and for its sometimes malicious personal attacks on various candidates, was better placed this year and stuck to the issues. Thankfully, the writers this year--Allen, Green and Amy M. Rabinowitz '98--stayed away from people's personal appearances and ethnic heritages. As a result, "Crimson Wisdom" was actually pretty funny. Still, next time the editorial page editor should double-check those arrows to make sure a correction box isn't needed the next day. An apology should have gone...