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...community leaders that New York is so safe, people don't lock their doors--making New Yorkers wonder if he occupies the same planet. He is known to make the kind of raunchy jokes that men trade in fraternities and golf carts; jokes that are not meant to be clever or political, but to get attention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rudy's Unlikely Heir | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...With limited breadth, the curatorial choices are critical. There's not a false step on the Country and Blues discs, with room for both the obvious (B.B. King, Hank Williams) and the exuberantly obscure (Whistler's Jug Band?). But while the Cajun, Tejano and Native American selections are individually clever, their close proximity emphasizes similarity rather than the genres' diversity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Roots Music | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

FISHNET A clever new screen saver adds a twist to the old virtual aquarium. Download DALiworld, available free at www.daliworld.net and gorgeously realistic angelfish, parrot fish and other sea dwellers will swim around your desktop. But don't get too attached: after a while the fish will swim away over the Internet, off your desktop and onto someone else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...today, starring Daniel Radcliffe as You-Know-Who—or rather, He-Whose-Name-I-Am-Sick-Of. I can just envision the hordes of would-be wizards, both young and old, stampeding theaters, wearing sorcerer’s hats and round glasses, even getting that oh-so-clever bolt of lightning tattooed on their foreheads: Think Pokemon and Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, only a hundred times worse...

Author: By Tiffany I. Hsieh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Thoughts of an Anti-Potter | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

Despite these shortcomings, Dot-Comedy is a surprisingly enjoyable show when taken with a grain of salt. The cast genuinely has fun with the show and the audience follows suit. Jokes that could seem irritatingly corny come across as clever and enjoyable in the context of such a show. In a rich irony, the poorly executed musical numbers add substantially to what becomes an all-out farce. The actors, accepting and even embracing their own missteps, emerge ever more endearing...

Author: By Lee HUDSON Teslik, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Yes, the iMacs Dance | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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