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Attempted theft? Bah. Such a crime is worth the risk when there's valuable information to be gained from hacking into a friend/lover/enemy's e-mail account...
HOLIDAY SALES: BAH, HUMBUG...
...discomfort, you say? Bah! Remember, honey--no pain, no gain. There is a reason why your Barbie doll could never stand up barefoot; her feet are molded for stiletto heels. And look who she reeled in: that handsome hunk Ken. Even in the seemingly innocent realm of Saturday morning cartoons, Smurfette, object of desire for hundreds of lusty blue Smurfs, possessed the cutest pair of white high heels...
Until now, this sort of Bah, humbug! approach to the Scriptures was in full display largely in the rarefied and theologically correct atmosphere of seminaries and elite universities. John Dominic Crossan, a Bible scholar at DePaul University, notes that there was an "implicit deal -- you scholars can go off to the universities and write in the journals and say anything you want." Now, he says, "the scholars are coming out of the closet," demanding public attention for the way they think. Among the latest such works are Crossan's Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography (HarperSanFrancisco; $18), Burton Mack's The Lost...
...Christmas Carol is emphatically not part of recent tradition at Seattle Repertory Theater. In fact, it has been a standing joke within the troupe that artistic director Daniel Sullivan always fills the holiday slot with some play involving suicide. So when he decided to do the ultimate "Bah, humbug!" and create a show mocking the Carols elsewhere, he wrote an offstage suicide into the script. That small self-indulgence is about the only inside joke in Inspecting Carol, a piece so accessible and hilariously funny that, to Sullivan's surprise, it is also being produced this holiday season by half...