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...them going about issues. Allen thinks the NBA's interminable 82-game regular season waters down the action. "I would cut the games back," he says. "You're going to see a level of intensity go up." In a sports world consumed with wiping out drugs, Garnett, who was chosen for the Feb. 17 All-Star game but has an abdominal strain, would offer a curious reform. "We're drug-tested too much," he says. "We're very funny about our routines. The policy is set up now where, on game day, they can come get you, take...
...mediocrity, operating within a narrow band of reassuring realism. They're called "movies of quality," which really means movies of piety--stories of cozy spiritual uplift (Mrs. Miniver, Going My Way) or, more recently, of superior damaged creatures (Rain Man, A Beautiful Mind). And they're often chosen over edgier fare. Thus, in 1977 the softhearted Rocky beat four superior films (All the President's Men, Bound for Glory, Network and Taxi Driver), and in 1982 another inspirational sports movie, Chariots of Fire, won out over Reds and Raiders of the Lost Ark. Oscar also ignores pictures deemed too weird...
...Democrats nominate Hillary, both parties will have chosen candidates who are intensely loathed by more than a few of their own members. But the parallel stops there. McCain is widely admired among Democrats, and many Democratic Hillary haters will be happy to vote for him. By contrast, there is no constituency for Hillary among Republicans who can't stand McCain. Nor, for that matter, will many of them vote for Barack Obama...
When I was in middle school, there was a television station called “The Box.” A kind of mass-scale precursor to YouTube, it played music videos—chosen entirely by viewers—twenty-four hours a day. If I wanted to see pop at its trashy best (apparently viewers just could not get enough of Eiffel 65’s “Blue”), “The Box” was the place.“Mirrorball,” a series of four programs of carefully selected music...
...Fantini said. Fantini made his anger at Kelley’s comments clear at the committee meeting, even after Cambridge Mayor E. Denise Simmons intervened and asked him to temper his often bombastic remarks. Simmons—who chairs the School Committee as mayor, a position chosen by the city council from among its own members—pledged to improve communication between the two. “I am looking to certainly close the gap and level of acrimony that has risen between those bodies,” she said. In other business, sophomore school committee members Patricia...