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Tearing into the nine-to-five life on “Live from the Plantation,” he observes his boss, “He’s cool in my face but I swear I saw him laugh though / Tickled by the fact that I’m the modern-day Sambo / And just when I think that I’m about to go Rambo / I call up my friend and he says he understands yo.” He tackles social climbing in the tragicomic “Status,” whose raw beat, supplied...

Author: By Andrew R. Illif, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: New Music | 10/3/2002 | See Source »

...midget who serves you sex in the night?), all of which are free. The quizzes at rateyourself.com range from "What Kind of Underwear Is Right for You?" to "Are You a Creative Lover?" Even the more sober topics, like "Should You Go to Graduate School" and "Does Your Boss Take Advantage of You?" take less than 10 minutes to complete...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Breed of Dog Are You? | 9/30/2002 | See Source »

...Then there's the President, who likes to keep his exuberant aide in check by tartly reminding him who's boss. Says Ed Gillespie, a G.O.P. strategist who worked with Rove on the Bush campaign: "If Karl said we should invade Iraq to help us in the November elections, he would have found himself sitting on his ass on Pennsylvania Avenue because the President would have thrown him out of the Oval Office...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: General Karl Rove, Reporting for Duty | 9/29/2002 | See Source »

...channel my OCD into repeatedly clicking the send/receive button on Outlook in anticipation of my package notification, I muse about how I might try to remedy this cable drought were I a mob boss from New Jersey rather than a lowly student journalist from Harvard. But then again, I’ll never know. I don’t have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $18 Billion and No HBO? | 9/26/2002 | See Source »

...couple of typing errors, and the next thing she (Maggie Gyllenhaal) knows, she's bent across the boss's desk, awaiting punishment. He (James Spader) is a sadist who sometimes lacks the courage of his convictions. But that's all right with his employee. She has enough affection for pain and humiliation for both of them. It may not be quite so all right with viewers, though. Writer-director Shainberg seems to be aiming for a dark comedy, but mostly his movie is coy without being funny, ugly without being truly transgressive, stupid when it needs to be smart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Secretary | 9/23/2002 | See Source »

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