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...such a weak script. On her time in jail: “I was getting raped in the shower and a woman was pulling my leg, just like I’m pulling yours.” This movie should not be released in theatres. It should be overnight Fed-Ex’d to Lifetime, where they can show it over and over again in their next “Girl Has a Troubled Childhood, and Her Life Is Filled with Rape, Drugs, Prostitution and Murder Movie Marathon...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 10/29/2004 | See Source »

Carrie E. Andersen ’08 lavishly stuck five 37-cent stamps on her ballot to Illinois. Allison K. Rone ’06 had her ballot Fed-exed to her from Washington state to make sure she filled it out in time...

Author: By Faryl Ury, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Absentee Voters Hit Roadblocks | 10/26/2004 | See Source »

...ratings, correctly informing the public is no longer important; rather, the focus is now to keep people tuned in by masquerading entertainment as news. “Infotainment,” which thrives off of heated discussions between outrageously partisan pundits about trivial issues, is all that is fed to the American public...

Author: By Brian A. Finn, | Title: Keeping Up With the Comics | 10/26/2004 | See Source »

Ironically, however, it is the comic media outlets that educate, rather than distract, the public. Shows like The Daily Show, and not Crossfire, offer the most insight into what is actually happening in our world. Perhaps this is because writers for The Daily Show do not get their material fed to them by communications directors or “rapid response teams” from the party headquarters. Rather, they use “the absurdity of the system,” as Stewart calls it, to produce their own content...

Author: By Brian A. Finn, | Title: Keeping Up With the Comics | 10/26/2004 | See Source »

...firm Spitzer had tangled with in earlier financial- industry investigations. This time Spitzer asked Marsh about its practice of receiving "contingent commissions" from insurance companies, a controversial type of payment. That's when things started to get nasty. Spitzer says the more he probed, the more Marsh misled and "fed us the same foolishness they've been feeding the public over the years." He felt that Marsh CEO Jeffrey Greenberg, son of Maurice (Hank) Greenberg, the legendary boss of insurance giant American International Group (AIG), was stonewalling him. "I didn't see in their management a desire for reform," Spitzer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spitzer Strikes Again | 10/25/2004 | See Source »

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