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...Smallville, in which a teenage Clark Kent (Tom Welling) discovers the powers that will someday make him the Man of Steel. He moons over an unrequited crush and battles villains who are really externalizations of teen emotions and self-discovery, as on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Part of the charm of Welling's Clark and Tobey Maguire's Peter, in fact, is that they have a little bit of the feminine in them: they've learned from Buffy and pop culture's other fatal femmes, who make fighting evil just another aspect of the really tough job of growing...
...Black and White varsity eight found that the third time is not a charm on two counts. For one thing, Radcliffe couldn’t avoid a third straight third-place Easterns finish. For another, the Black and White dropped its rubber match with the defending champion Tigers, whom they beat in mid-April but lost to in their second meeting of the year last weekend...
...Riyadh. Crown Prince Abdullah gave Cheney "an earload full" at a private dinner in Houston on Wednesday--urging the Veep to abandon the Administration's pro-Israel tilt. And when Abdullah met with the President in Crawford, Texas, on Thursday, there were even signs that the old Bush charm had lost its purchase. Accounts of the 5-hr. meeting vary dramatically. According to two sources, Abdullah surprised Bush with three handouts--a photo album and two videocassettes--each containing powerful images of the destruction of Palestinian homes by Israeli troops. The two men looked through the book and watched...
...regular electricity) and the Fourth of July (with the obligatory patriotic parades). Journalists who usually never get visas fill the press center. Handsomely dressed Arabs crowd the Al-Rashid lobby, all invited to witness how much the Iraqi people love their leader. For Saddam, it is time for another charm offensive: he is using all his old diplomatic wiles and faux hospitality to put off the threatened day of reckoning with the U.S. He is busily embracing Arab leaders so they won't sign up for Bush II's get-Saddam campaign. He is dickering with the U.N.--again--over...
Some of the reconceived characterizations meet with more success. Allowing Tobias (played winningly by John Keefe ’01) to narrate gives the musical a beautiful circularity it otherwise lacks. Keefe’s charm, versatility and vocal talent make his performance one of the evening’s highlights...