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...Doing things over is one thing; overdoing them is another. Amid all their taking of pains, Yorkin and Lear rarely forget the importance of not being earnest. Their shows are, after all, only situation comedies. The scripts, however inventive, tend more toward formula than organic form. The characterizations are still exaggerated cutouts from the fabric of real life...
...born in Fort Worth but moved to Quitman when she was four years old. "Now I respect it for its simplicity." Seger has also lived in a number of other places, including Virginia Beach, Va. (where she embraced rap), and London, (where she launched her singing career in earnest at age 19). Her music reflects her itinerant upbringing: her album has some elements of hip-hop (it was mixed by Commissioner Gordon, who also worked on Lauryn Hill's hip-hop masterpiece The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill), but it also features some rock-'n'-roll guitars...
...down 20% and the University of Missouri-Columbia is down 18%. One limitation to any college-based program is that many kids are arriving on campus with drinking problems. Fully half of binge drinkers do not wait for the freedom of college before they begin elbow bending in earnest; they start while they're still at home. "Colleges are inheriting behaviors learned in high school," says social psychologist Henry Wechsler, who heads Harvard's study on drinking among young people...
TONY BLAIR Earnest PM survives foot-and-mouth, Conservative challenge. Now about that euro...
...such things as the National Health Service was enough to win a huge parliamentary majority. Now, as Blair asks voters to give him another term in 10 Downing St. in this week's general election, he has a record to defend - and the euphoria that once greeted the earnest young man has dissipated...