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...Chief Justice has been encouraging people not to make too much of the court's divisions. A lifelong baseball fan, he turns again to a sports analogy. A single term in the life of the court, he likes to say, is like a single at bat in a baseball game...
...there are perfectly good public house spaces available for socializing? Who doesn’t want to spend their weekends downing forties in the senior common room? Answer: no one. And Pilbeam hits the nail square on it head: underage drinking will be rendered IMPOSSIBLE with the introduction of BAT teams to Stein Clubs. Would you like some cheese with that grape juice, Quincy sophomore? I left Dean Pilbeam’s second point until the end because it is the strongest, truest thing I have ever read: “it is quite apparent that the UC Party Grant...
...individuals stuck in the checkout line [Aug. 27]. But I disagree with Joel Stein's claim that it's "a sign of progress for a society to go from inventing gods and monsters to seeking catharsis in the real life of Paris Hilton." That's as laughable as Bat Boy running for President. The Weekly World News lost readers because people turned to the Internet. Instead of waiting for a weekly paper to suspend disbelief, they write blogs, generate websites and post videos on YouTube to publicize their ignorance. You will never be able to convince me that reading about...
...Being the hot kid on the block brings its own pressures. As Cowan notes, "Colin is contending with a more difficult situation than I ever did: dealing with major Hollywood studios, major European companies. The richest people in Asia are producing big genre movies and he's got to bat them off with a stick. He probably gets more calls from studio heads and very scary financiers than I get about Galas...
...Americans stuck in the checkout line [Aug. 27]. But I disagree with Joel Stein's claim that it's "a sign of progress for a society to go from inventing gods and monsters to seeking catharsis in the real life of Paris Hilton." That's as laughable as Bat Boy running for President. The Weekly World News lost readers because people turned to the Internet. Instead of waiting for a weekly paper to suspend disbelief, they write blogs, generate websites and post videos on YouTube to publicize their ignorance. You will never convince me that reading about Paris Hilton...