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...help, to Gillian Anderson, the X-Files alum who is imported at the last minute to pump up the film's marquee allure. (Someone asks if she's "the one in Baywatch.") But it's Coogan who places every aspect of his personal and professional life on the altar of mockery. Was his one starring role in a big American film (Around the World in 80 Days) an abysmal flop? Put it in the movie. Was he discovered, while still married, in a London hotel with two lap dancers? Allude to that as well. And has he, like everyone...
...abundance of work yet to do, as his lieutenant governor will remind us when she declares her candidacy for the job. I wonder if the motive underlying Gov. Romney’s choice to quit has more to do with the reluctance to sacrifice his presidential ambitions upon the altar of a lukewarm record? It says something about the character of the man, and the efficacy of his tenure in office, who fears to run on the remarkable progress he claims his administration has made. JEFFREY W. WHITE Belmont, Mass. January 8, 2005 The writer is a senior at Harvard...
...year civil war, and disaster brought people closer to their gods. "The church is packed," he says, beaming, "and I'm building a new one to the south. The youth are with me. To feel closer to the sacrament, people have been leaving personal things--glasses, handkerchiefs--on the altar." Father Ranjeevan is unimpressed by the notion that that might have more to do with him than with his god. He tells the story of how, on the evening after the tsunami, he came across a girl kneeling by her mother's body, laid out with hundreds of others...
...team scatters behind the altar to slip into the newly agreed-upon outfits, short-shorts over fishnets, and matching lime-Green “Fifteen Minutes” T-shirts. Fee pops open the day’s fifth can of Diet Coke. “Coke should so be our sponsor,” he quipped, chasing a nugget of beef jerky with the aspartame-filled brew...
Suddenly McKee came running from behind the altar, nearly crashing into the head of the Yale Daily News’s Business Board...