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...programming that requires viewers to suspend disbelief far too strenuously. The sitcom Kirk, for example, asks us to accept that Kirk Cameron could be a Greenwich Village illustrator raising three children and dating a doctor who looks like Elle MacPherson. More demanding still is Simon, a sitcom about a dim-witted TV executive that seems to be set in some parallel universe where grown men take baths in front of their friends...
...steady build-up of student confidence in and respect for what had been Harvard's most buffoonish comedy of ego and intrigue. Old memories--of offices being broken into, funds illegally transferred and blackmail documents melodramatically exposed at panel discussions--are starting to fade into the dim background buzz of history...
Perennial contenders Princeton (12-5, 4-1 Ivy) and Dartmouth (12-6, 5-1 Ivy) are in hot pursuit of the leaders, and Yale's (5-11, 1-5 Ivy) prospects for a title seem rather dim...
...discontent and insecurity have causes beyond spoiled-brattism. Many people seem to have a dim but accurate sense that some of the trends that enabled them to pursue the good life despite declining real wages are stagnating or even reversing...
...away. The speediest space probe would take millions of years to reach them; even a radio signal, the fastest known thing in the universe, would need 35 years to get there, and it would take another 35 for any aliens, should they exist, to answer. The planets are so dim that they cannot be detected directly. In fact, the only evidence Marcy and Butler have is observations of tiny wobbles in the positions of the two stars, caused by the planets' massive gravity. The intensity of the wobbles tells the astronomers how big each planet is, and the timing reveals...