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...clinics and youth shelters are, for the most part, rare. "We try to provide children with a calm, soothing place, not chaotic, star-studded events," says Leslie Johnson of the Westside Children's Center in Culver City, California. "Besides, children under three have different ideas about celebrity. When Barney came to our Christmas party, Jim Carrey could have been standing there and no one would have noticed...
...John Tesh The former host of Entertainment Tonight served up embarrassingly fatuous commentary during NBC's telecasts of the Olympic gymnastics. A cross between Barney the Dinosaur and Fabio, Tesh said things like, "It was the U.S. who had the key, soaring through the rarefied air, newly baptized in the fire of Olympic competition." At one point he cautioned, "There's something in the warm summer air tonight, can you feel it?" Yes, it was a blast of hot air from a himbo who knew what had happened at events taped that afternoon. E.T., take him home...
Activists should use conventional political strategies to advance their cause, rather than employing alienating or violent tactics, said Rep. Barney Frank '61-'62 (D-Mass.) in an address to a gay rights conference at the Law School on Saturday...
...academics, journalists and artists. A teacher makes $90,000 his or her first year, and a staff reporter at The New York Times makes several hundred thousand dollars. In this magical kingdom, a partner at Sullivan and Cromwell earns $25,000 a year, and similarly those at Smith Barney, Bear Stearns, McKinsey and the others receive a meager $30,000 salary. Would Harvard, Yale, Stanford and Columbia Law Schools still attract enough students to fill next year's incoming class? Would the same percentage of Harvard seniors still decide to undergo recruiting? In sum, would these corporate-America professions still...
...those ineffectual men who take things too far when they are given a little power. In the movies, when an an ordinary person faces great, malign forces, that person is played by Gary Cooper or Harrison Ford. Jewell seems to be a pudgy version of Barney Fife. In this mismatch, he wouldn't appear to have a chance...