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...speech impediments in recent memory. Another band, the Folksmen, is comprised of the same actors playing the same instruments they butchered in Spinal Tap, but reinvented as balding, anachronistic folk singers. The script makes a serious mistake in under-using the Folksmen, replacing the genuine tension of their metal alter egos with some inane squabbling over set lists. Rounding out the collection are the New Main Street Singers, whose leaders practice some sort of color-based religion that is far too ludicrous to be amusing...
...Dean of Harvard College. Adding to his current responsibilities, Gross will now fill the position from which Harry R. Lewis ’68, the current College dean, was unceremoniously fired last month. After Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby took this decisive step to radically alter the Harvard College administration, we would hope he had more detailed plans for successfully carrying out the restructuring of the deanships. Unfortunately, all evidence points toward another conclusion...
...Bush Administration, some of the unexpected turns of Gulf War II reflect a perhaps too rigid adherence to ideology at the expense of on-the-ground practicality. But whatever the weaknesses in some of the Administration's early assumptions, they probably won't alter the outcome of the conflict--though they may prolong it. There have been many signal successes on the ground: after all, U.S. forces have moved to within 50 miles of Baghdad in a week, and American forces have defeated the Iraqis in every head-to-head encounter. Despite individual setbacks last week, U.S. fortunes can switch...
...life rarely offers such prescience, even from the people paid to deliver it. Some of the days commemorated in this 80-year retrospective slipped by unnoticed at the time. Who could imagine that a gizmo to help techno-nerds talk to one another with their computers would so radically alter how we all would connect with one another? Other days might not have made the list at all if it had been put together a decade ago. History comes with its very own Doppler effect: as our point of observation changes, so does our understanding of what we are seeing...
Each Monday night, in a therapist's office somewhere in Los Angeles, a different George Lopez story unfolds. There, the real-life comedian who plays his eponymous alter ego also learns about himself a little at a time. He learns how to be part of a family--his idea of bonding with his 6-year-old daughter used to be to turn on the tube and sit in silence. He learns to forgive his grandmother, who raised him after his mother abandoned him but didn't show him affection or even celebrate his birthday. Lopez, 41, still tears up when...