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...Yale, you learn to stand up for yourself,” the brunette twin said in her national television debut. Absent from the remarks was twin Jenna’s school of choice, the University of Texas, which one assumes is not as liberal as its East Coast counterpart...
...Hamlet. We are also treated to the edifying spectacle of a hostile takeover of Hamlet by the characters of The Merry Wives of Windsor. Fun, but Fforde's cheerfulness is relentless. Genuine pathos can be found in the interplay between the world of fiction and its drabber, realer counterpart, but Fforde doesn't go looking for it. He is always charming company, and if he sometimes strays too far into fantasy, well, what's so great about reality? "If the real world were a book," Hamlet remarks, "it would never find a publisher." --By Lev Grossman
...unlike its obvious counterpart, Fahrenheit 9/11, Outfoxed fails to translate its abstract ideas to the audience’s level. Michael Moore’s talent as a filmmaker is demonstrating how politics and policy affect the average Joe. Conversely, no apathetic viewer will be swayed by the statistics and wonkish experts Greenwald parades on screen. Without a dash of showmanship, the strains of Greenwald’s sermon will reach only the choir...
Dinin, who is launching his publication through a personal investment of an unspecified amount, said his 02138 will have advertisements, but that most of the revenue will come from subscriptions and sales. He suggested that his magazine’s revenue goals are more modest than that of its counterpart...
...weeks ago, Scott Russell was looking for a way to restore the Harvard men’s water polo team to national prominence, as he did its women’s counterpart...