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During this past week, FM's crack-team of Under Glass researchers, writers, and editors was sad and confused. The days wasted away as the Under Glass staff paced nervously across the floor, pulling out hair and going through fingernails like Bogart went through cigarettes...
...correspondent stopped a Key Tour that was just finishing up the "Three Lies of the John Harvard Statue" spiel. Knowing that Crimson Key folks went gaga for good humor, FM decided to crack a joke...
...shoplifter declares that the Coop has "one of the most inept security systems in the world." Yet another petty thief uses the Coop's laxity to rationalize her crimes. "I do it partly for them [the Coop]... It's sort of like Nietzsche--'Punish the weak'...They really should crack down...
...dangers are especially frightening for thousands of alien residents. Last autumn, militant Islamists threatened death to all foreigners who did not quit the country. "The terrorists play on people's nerves until they crack up and leave," says a member of the dwindling French community. Raymond Louzoum, who was married to a Muslim and had applied for Algerian nationality, did not want to go and so became the 27th victim. "He fitted my first pair of glasses when I was four years old," said a young woman who works in an office opposite the optician's shop, choking back tears...
...groping for a way to reach an adult audience without alienating the screaming teenyboppers who made them rich and famous. So what's an old New Kid to do? Change the band's name, for one thing, to NKOTB (not, obviously, a radical switcheroo) and hire a team of crack producers to give them a slicker, more grown-up sound. Thanks to studio pros like Teddy Riley % and Narada Michael Walden (who have separately produced records for Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey), Face the Music is the most polished album the Kids have ever made...