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Before some Harvard-Radcliffe for Elmo Club writes nasty letters, I will say that I do like Elmo, the consummately cute and wonderful rising star of the "Sesame Street" world. Maybe some of the Elmo hype can help finance the Corporation for Public Broadcasting programming that is so valuable and yet always so vulnerable to budget cuts. Maybe enough Washington politicians said, "Elmo who?" to their children that they will think twice about cutting the dollars that support the people and puppets that teach America's children (assuming the parents of those children show up in district polling...
...limited editions. In the culture of cynicism that we live in, Elmo has broken through as an icon, maybe even a hero. He is not a hero in the way I wish America would dream--he is not courageous, committed or visionary in any traditional sense. He is cute, ready to learn and caring, but he is not strong. Elmo isn't the "Sesame Street" character I would want to consult about my course selections (I trust Grover...
That hit comedy--which won Murphy the year's Best Actor award from the National Society of Film Critics and, in a just world, would snag him an Oscar nomination--was like a great date with an old lover fresh from rehab. Eddie was once again cute, dazzling, working overtime to please. Relocating his strength as a mimic, he played seven characters, all brilliantly. The one unattractive figure, Buddy Love, was a wicked stretch of the Eddie Murphy personality that moviegoers had tired of: sleek, preening, abrasive, an overdog in love with itself. The other characters were marvels not just...
...issue quickly. He likes it when anyone, even a junior employee, challenges him, and you know he respects you when he starts shouting back." Around Microsoft, it's known as the "math camp" mentality: a lot of cocky geeks willing to wave their fingers and yell with the cute conviction that all problems have a right answer. Among Gates' favorite phrases is "That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard," and victims wear it as a badge of honor, bragging about it the way they do about getting a late-night E-mail from...
...cute but I was a little annoyed," Drew says...