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...alone in my despair for the next four years. As thousands of Bush-Cheney supporters screamed and cheered on the screen, I studied the faces reflected back at me in the autumn-themed window. Resting on bodies of various heights, ages and fashion styles, each bore the same expression: hollow-eyed despondence. I couldn’t find a trace of the happiness of the nearly 59,000,000 citizens who voted to keep Bush in office...

Author: By Ilana J. Sichel, THE ROUGH CUT | Title: Who is the Jewish Vote? | 11/5/2004 | See Source »

...then the Crimson bore down...

Author: By Rebecca A. Seesel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: M. Hockey Finds Missing Offense in Exhibition Against U.S. U-18 | 11/1/2004 | See Source »

Where the Smiths were desperate, the Wedding Present was bitter, and their songs overwhelmingly address the deceitful nature of ex-girlfriends, sentiments surely in accord with those of Rob Fleming. Their first album bore not only “Why Are You Being So Reasonable Now?” (subsequently released in French, for no reason), “Don’t Be So Hard” and “You Can’t Moan, Can You?” but also the jealous ex-lover classics “Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft?...

Author: By Christopher A. Kukstis, KUKSTICITY | Title: The ministers of loquacious melancholy | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...face it. No man called Alfie would ever make it with the ladies--unless he bore an uncanny resemblance to JUDE LAW. In the upcoming remake of the 1966 classic, Law, left, plays the title role, while former Eurythmic DAVE STEWART, center, and MICK JAGGER provide the film's music. Law dropped in on a recording session, perhaps to swap Lothario tips with Jagger, who said recently that playboys, sadly, no longer exist: "Any resemblance between my life and a playboy's is purely coincidental...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play, Boys! | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...messages consumer culture sends them are that you're nobody if you don't have the right tennis shoes or you're not drinking the right soft drink. Life isn't fun unless you're eating candy. Your parents are nerds. Your teachers are nerds. School is a bore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONVERSATION: Junk Culture | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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