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...here we are again—another case of a dumb jock letting fame get to his head, right? Williams had everything a man could ask for except for healthy legs and the slightest ounce of common sense. Like the O.J. Simpsons and Pete Roses of the world, fame made him feel invincible. And while each of those fallen athletes met different fates, the results were predictably messy...
...transit allowing me to pass between cops and rioters completely without consequence. The rioters left me alone but only because, with my blue eyes and flopping forelock of light-brown hair, they thought, in the half-light, that I was Bobby Kennedy. Otherwise, why would a white man be dumb enough to wander around like that in the middle of a riot in Harlem? So, like a jerk, I walked as a god among them for a little while...
...star power is obviously key to the success of the shows, but they have also taken up the mantle of traditional parenting that white sitcoms have shed. For years, TV's white parents have been crass (Roseanne), dumb (The Simpsons), even abusive (Titus). On My Wife and Bernie Mac, black dads don Ward Cleaver's authority-figure sweater. Wayans' grouchy suburban dad Michael Kyle is firm and in control--though, Wayans says, "a bit of a Neanderthal." Creatively, My Wife is one of TV's most nondescript sitcoms, from its familiar suburban-family premise to its plain-as-macaroni title...
...Continued campaign of dumb stunts designed to annoy Harvard President Larry Summers into letting my student-led labor activist group decide how to spend Harvard’s budget. Today: Stand outside his house while he’s in Europe. Tomorrow: Panty raid on Loeb House...
Those $22 Ryanair flights from London to Milan are all well and good, but if you're off to Chicago this week, you'll still have to do business with one of those big, dumb dinosaurs we used to call the major airlines. For all of the red ink they've been spilling, Europe still needs its British Airways, KLMs and Lufthansas. The trouble, as British Airways ceo Rod Eddington will tell you, is that it just doesn't need so many of them. "If you look at North America, you have four or five full-service carriers," says...