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...properties such as Notting Hill and Canary Wharf are selling for mini-money millions, a barrage of London icons - including the London Eye, Tate Modern and the new Wembley Stadium - have appeared and, instead of scooping up $18 in a beauty contest, players who draw the right Chance card receive $183,000 for winning a reality TV show. The Free Parking square, however, is history. In London? Never...
...Days pretty much busts the assumption that all of Rupert Murdoch's TV networks are tools of Karl Rove. (Spurlock shows off his A.C.L.U. card on camera.) But the series is not strident, and seems to have been made in a genuine spirit of curiosity. Later episodes, in which Spurlock serves as host and does interviews, are mixed; anti-aging therapy is simply not as burning a social issue. But the Islam episode--a devout Christian moves in with a Muslim family--is fascinating, moving, funny and without a shred of manipulation...
...over, for 90 minutes, by scores of comics? The surprise is: yes. The Aristocrats smartly varies its pace, with iterations by the old (George Carlin), the female (Whoopi Goldberg), the pranksters (Penn and Teller) and the deeply weird (Andy Dick). Also wordlessly (by Billy the Mime), as a card trick (by Eric Mead) and as a cartoon (by the South Park guys). The result is a master class in comedy, in all its cruel, larkish, obsessive creativity...
...Warren’s proposal went far more smoothly. Last August, Ms. Brophy went to visit him in New York City, where he lives. Late one afternoon in his apartment, he handed her an envelope with a card and some cash, and walked out. For two hours, Ms. Brophy went on an elaborate scavenger hunt in lower Manhattan...
...ending the genocide in Sudan. One notable effort, the “Swipe for Darfur” campaign, was instituted at the close of the semester, allowing students to donate their Crimson Cash to support peacekeepers in Sudan with a “swipe” of their ID card. These measures prove that campus activism is still alive and students can make a difference, as long as they are not too hasty to protest...