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Coming, coincidentally enough, as we prepare to leave school for the summer, this flurry of official admonishments provides a fitting bookend to a year that began with Sept. 11. College is a famously sheltered place, and the walls of ivy that surround us are designed, in part, to hold the world constant so that we might study it. Cheney’s warning should give notice, however, that the world we are about to rejoin is very different than the one we left when we came to school in the fall...
...original story and the Broadway show both have their fascinations, but they'd be of only minor interest if they didn't bookend the movie. I remember loving it as a kid; to me it was a taut, 96min. primer in the ways bright people talked, dressed and hurt each other. Yet the film was a flop at the box office (Winchell announced, with apparent pleasure, that it lost $2 million) and invisible at awards time (it was the only one of Lehman's 50s scripts that did not win a Writers Guild nomination). Since then, "Sweet Smell" has become...
This week's POY issue is in a sense a bookend to TIME's special Sept. 11 issue, which was put out just 36 hours after the horrific events of that day. Its cover is the only one in TIME's history to bear a black border. The issue still has the power and immediacy to evoke the emotions of Sept. 11. See it at time.com/yit2001...
...Black Bears jumped out to a 5-1 lead, capitalizing on bookend home runs by freshman Matt Reynolds and sophomore Aaron Young. With Maine holding a 2-1 lead, Reynolds hit a two-out solo home run in the top of the fourth inning...
...Apple Venus Vol. 2" Although not quite on a par with the glory days of "Skylarking" or "Black Sea," the more rocking bookend to "Vol. 1" still stood out from the crowd with its riff-happy guitar-driven tunes and Andy Partridge's exceptional lyrical prowess. "Playground" is a textbook example of smart pop songwriting, which in the age of Britney Spears is increasingly becoming an oxymoron...