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From the day after Thanksgiving all the way through Christmas Eve, Messiah sing-alongs, holiday concerts, and carolers may seem as common—and overdone—as candy canes, eggnog, and presents under the tree. But before you turn against holiday music altogether, Harvard has an array of concerts this season that deserve a look...
...season when Hollywood gets literate. Since the Oscar deadline coincides with New Year's Eve and a bookish pedigree is a sure way to get Academy members' attention, studios turn to acclaimed novels for their holiday fodder. But there's a risk involved. Ask any reader who has seen the movie version of a favorite novel, and the answer will usually be, "The book was better...
...some lighthearted banter—and at least one mention of a “sexual bus stop in purgatory.”CRYSTALLIZING THE CHARACTERSCusack plays Charlie Arglist, a mob lawyer who, as the narrative begins, has just conducted an apparently successful heist of $2 million on Christmas Eve. The victim is Bill Guerrard (Randy Quaid), the Godfather of the Kansas City crime syndicate. His partner in crime is alpha male Vic Cavanaugh (Billy Bob Thornton, in a sly reversal of the accomplice role from “A Simple Plan”), who may be playing on Charlie?...
...Asked whether this was a tad forward on the eve of a visit to China by Bush, White House press secretary Scott McClellan told reporters on Air Force One: ?We have good relations with China, so we're able to speak frankly.? So in the next few days, Bush will face the same challenge he has in dealing with Russian President Vladimir Putin: How much is too much, and how much is too little, when it comes to jawboning human rights and religious liberty...
...have characterized Bush’s regime of “compassionate conservatism.” As House Representative Sherwood Boehlert, R-N.Y., put it: “You’re denying resources to programs that serve the middle class and neediest of the needy on the eve of a projected vote to provide tax benefits and breaks to the most advantaged in our society.” Moreover, the Republican Party’s sudden rediscovery of fiscal responsibility rings hollow, to say the least. The House spending bill trims four percent off the forecasted $1.6 trillion...