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Rigby, a World War II veteran and great-grandfather of two, returned yesterday to Kirkland House, his home from 1939-1941, to receive his bachelor of arts degree in English and American Literature and Language with the class...
...leisure travelers, they are few and far between, and generally fall into the expat weekend-getaway category: the couple deserting SARS-afflicted Hong Kong for a spa weekend in Bali, a lonely bachelor checking out of a subdued Singapore for a Bangkok party break. "Intraregional travel is leading the pack," says Kodowlski "because places aren't so far from home. People are closer to the reality of SARS; they see behind the media hype...
...those with bad ratings. Fox will bring back Joe Millionaire, even though its original the-prince-is-a-pauper surprise is well known; the network claims to have a "secret plan" for a new twist. Survivor will be back with a tournament-of-champions edition. And ABC's The Bachelor will return, seeking a mate for Bob Guiney, the funny, big-boned guy spurned last season by bachelorette Trista Rehn--who will marry her beau Ryan Sutter next fall, on ABC, of course. Nothing says "I love you" like a sweeps stunt...
...rituals of the young. At one end of the beach was The Real Cancun, produced by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, who created the Ur-reality TV show The Real World for MTV. On the other, a few miles away, Mike Fleiss, the man who brought us The Bachelor, was making The Quest. Both movies had similar casting strategies, focusing on the teen-comedy trope of an eager male virgin, but Bunim-Murray had an edge: female identical twins. It was not a fair fight...
...That confusion (the more you watch, the less you know) is the inevitable result of the 24-hour news cycle, which exaggerates both advances and setbacks and in which war is a quagmire if it threatens to last as long as a season of The Bachelor. Yet TV also had fine moments, many, not coincidentally, when anchors and talking heads shut up, as with a fire fight in Baghdad that aired on msnbc last Thursday. For several chaotic minutes there were no voice-overs, charts or speculation, just the sound of spent shells clinking on concrete and the sights...