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...their songs) with a sweetly humanistic approach. They may scream "Shut up when I'm talking to you" like misunderstood demons, but they don't wear goth makeup, cut themselves onstage, objectify women or encourage kids to "break stuff," as Limp Bizkit infamously did at Woodstock '99. They are earnest, middle-class guys who sign autographs until the arena lights go out, give their e-mail addresses to fans and refrain from uttering a single curse word on their album. "I think at one point I wrote, 'I can't take this f______ s___,'" says Bennington, who shares lyrics credit...
...teens clog Times Square on weekdays, staring up at MTV's concourse studio, trying to get a glimpse of Daly and his musical guests. His new half-hour show, Last Call, on NBC from Monday through Thursday at 1:30 a.m., will be decidedly mellower, mixing live music with earnest interviews on a relaxed loft-type set. "He's got a lot of charisma, and he's got a strong following with the younger audience," says NBC entertainment president Jeff Zucker. While most of Daly's guests will be pop stars, he hopes to book the kind of folks...
Over the past eight months, the Harvard Committee on Employment and Contracting Policies (HCECP) has made an amazing amount of progress. It has moved the campus away from the acrimony and conflict that marked the Massachusetts Hall protests last spring to a shared and earnest desire to improve the economic conditions of Harvard’s low-wage employees. The committee’s recommendations are sound, and Summers should move promptly to implement them. However, the president should also move on his own initiative to adopt an additional safeguard: an annually adjusted wage floor that guarantees an adequate standard...
...over, Harvard is still searching for a reliable second scoring option behind junior Patrick Harvey and the Crimson continues to perform inconsistently at the free-throw line. All of this means that Harvard’s fate against a now imposing looking Ivy slate—which begins in earnest tomorrow at Dartmouth, followed by visits from Penn and Princeton next weekend—is really anyone’s guess...
...town reluctantly seeking a rich bride) to contemporary Manhattan, where he falls for Kate McKay, a hard-charging market researcher. His transportation is provided by her dreamy amateur scientist ex-boyfriend (Schreiber). Some of his education in contemporary rudeness is supplied by her brother (Meyer), a hilariously earnest, perpetually out-of-work Method actor...