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Reality: Corey's a tad bitter. ("How can you not be bitter when...it should be you up there winning the Academy Award...
...comedy score (A Bug's Life) and song (That'll Do, from Babe: Pig in the City). And since he lost in all three categories, as he did the nine previous times he was nominated, Randy Newman might feel a strange satisfaction as well: he's been writing about bitter losers and empty hallways since the Beatles had bowl haircuts. Newman's four-CD retrospective collection is called Guilty: 30 Years, as if his career were a near life sentence for the crime of telling the dirty truth in song...
...Sakharov abandoned his cocooned life as his country's leading physicist to risk everything in battle against the two great threats to civilization in the second half of this century: nuclear war and communist dictatorship. In the dark, bitter depths of the cold war, Sakharov's voice rang out. "A miracle occurred," Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn wrote, "when Andrei Sakharov emerged in the Soviet state, among the swarms of corrupt, venal, unprincipled intelligentsia." By the time of his death in 1989, this humble physicist had influenced the spread of democratic ideals throughout the communist world. His moral challenge to tyranny, his faith...
Once again that bitter phrase will have to be the motto of the Harvard men's water polo team (12-19, 5-6 CWPA). After a frustrating, injury-plagued 1997 campaign, the Crimson entered the 1998 season expecting to make a splash during the regular season and at the East Coast Athletic Conference Tournament...
...same time, however, for hundreds of alumnae returning to the Yard today for Commencement exercises and reunion festivities, Radcliffe was their alma mater, a significant influence on their lives and a source of many memories. This transition, while progressive and necessary, is thus also bitter-sweet. There is the reasonable concern that with the redefinition of Radcliffe as a research institute will also come the eventual fading of Radcliffe's incredible role in the lives of Harvard women from our collective memory...