Word: collared
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Enter the View crew, a band of women you'd never mistake for a family, except for the ersatz ones we encounter at work; the signature opening Hot Topics segment could be a coffee-break bull session in a white-collar office. The show defies the received wisdom that female daytime-TV viewers are interested only in innocuous chat or in Springer-style scandal shows. "You may say the show's not that smart," says co-executive producer Bill Geddie. "But for daytime, we are absolutely the Library of Congress...
...FRAUD Internet fraud, like Internet usage, is on the rise. The National Consumers League reported 10,660 complaints last year--a 38% increase over 1998. So, the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center have just launched www.ifccfbi.gov a site where consumers can report any suspected e-fraud. The center will route your complaints about anything from fraudulent investment offerings to failure-to-render scams--such as paying for goods that are never received--to the appropriate state, local or federal agency, even to international branches...
Michael A. Hill '01 wore a leopard-print shirt and hemp dog collar...
More concerned with plot than pathos, Brown presents his characters without judgment or sentiment, a courtesy he extended to all the luckless, hard-drinking, rootless denizens of his previous work. On the strength of his bleak, intimately detailed portraits of blue-collar Mississippians, and his insistence on setting his stories in and around his hometown (a region fictionalized by William Faulkner as Yoknapatawpha County), Brown is being celebrated as a new voice of the South, or, as he's also been dubbed, one of the "bad boys" of Southern literature...
Jesus wants to find a middle ground between irreverence and irrelevance, promising a Saviour (Jeremy Sisto) who laughs and emotes like the blue-collar rabble rouser he was in the New Testament. It takes steps toward greater realism, putting the political ferment of Christ's time in the foreground, but ends up a traditional, staid epic that is double-dipped in ham-fisted dramatics...