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...fill those few moments when Rudy Giuliani isn't on television, the New York City mayor's office released tourism commercials for him to appear in. Supporting cast includes Barbara Walters and Woody Allen. In one spot, a man runs the bases in an empty Yankee Stadium, sliding headfirst into home. Why, it's Henry Kissinger! He brushes the dirt off his face and says something that's supposed to sound like "Derek who?" In another, ROBERT DE NIRO, on a Thanksgiving parade float with BILLY CRYSTAL, yells, "Are you gobblin' at me?" In yet another, Yogi Berra conducts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 19, 2001 | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Ornate green and black dust jackets of early 20th century fantasy fill Keaveny’s bookshelf, which stands diagonally across the small room. According to Keaveny, a young man with unruly curly hair, Converse sneakers and large horn-rimmed glasses, lovers of rare and first-edition books tend to have highly specialized interests...

Author: By Daniela J. Lamas, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Five Centuries of Books Find Home in Square | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...reading over through the neatly printed sentences and paragraphs, one realizes the truth: for Neil Rudenstine’s speeches, as for Gertrude Stein’s Oakland, there is no there there. Our former president speaks in platitudes; he borrows other men’s insights to fill the spaces in his speeches where insight and originality ought to find a home. “All of us recognize that we are now actors in a drama that has become global in nature,” he tells one audience; another is informed that the “enlarged...

Author: By Ross G. Douthat, | Title: Pointing Us Nowhere | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

...story of Saturday’s game against Columbia ( 14-9, 8-6 Ivy ) was the rushed return of sophomore Amy Asare. Out with a stress fracture in her foot, Asare had not seen action and had only practiced once in the last five weeks. Coming in to to fill the void at middle hitter, she responded by recording nine blocks in the match...

Author: By Renzo Weber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: W. Volleyball Ends Season on Low Note | 11/19/2001 | See Source »

Summing up, then, here’s the main theme in all this incisive commentary: Since nobody could sincerely advocate Republican ideas, GOP proposals must be part of some perverse plot to sell the world to the special interests who traditionally fill Republican coffers (like trombonists). Sounds probable enough. It undoubtedly has something to do with that right wing conspiracy Hill and Bill used to fret about...

Author: By Jason L. Steorts, | Title: Those Frightful Partisans | 11/16/2001 | See Source »

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