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...potato weeks before its release. In April an urgent internal memo from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center was leaked to the New York Times; it stated, "No one from NASA is to do interviews or otherwise comment on anything having to do with" the movie. (The gag order has since been rescinded.) At a press conference organized last week by the activist group MoveOn.org Gore poked holes in the movie's science but urged people to see it anyway. "The Bush Administration is in some ways even more fictional than the movie in trying to convince people that there...
...whenever he leaves the room. Tristan Tzara (Ryan Z. Cortazar ’06) is appropriately grandiose, dancing about the room and declaring his right to urinate in multiple colors. His affected monocle’s tendency to fall out of his eye is an amusing running gag, and I hope intentional. Lenin (Daemon Pratt) and his wife Nadya (Lauren B. Brodsky ’06) make a well-balanced couple, with Lenin as a charismatic, harsh idealist and Nadya as an even harsher pragmatist. Cecily (Joanna N. Leeds ’04) and Gwendolen (Andrea V. Halpern...
Thanks to the Global Gag Rule, a pernicious Reagan policy reinstated by the Bush Administration, foreign NGOs that use their own funds to perform abortions, offer abortion counseling or lobby for legalizing abortion in their countries are denied U.S. aid. The White House has blocked funding to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) —a key international family planning care provider—for two years running on charges that they finance abortion services in China. (UNFPA denies the charges and their story was recently corroborated by an independent delegation of experts...
...farfetched that a man would forget his own grandson? Sure. But the gag works, because many of us also forgot Ben existed, even though he figured heavily in the sitcom's first two seasons. Jokes on Friends often involve characters' reminding us of basic details about their lives (say, that Monica and Ross are brother and sister) or forgetting details about one another (in Season 7, Chandler gets glasses, and everyone, including his fiance Monica, believes he has always had them). Friends is like that: content to be funny and forgettable. Even the episode titles--"The One Where ..."--suggest that...
Reporters, smelling doped blood, bombarded players and managers with questions and accusations. "There's no need to address anything other than baseball," Bonds said at the Giants' Scottsdale, Ariz., training camp. Commissioner Bud Selig slapped a gag order on all major-league personnel. And Gene Orza, chief operating officer of the players' union, said it would continue to fight any expansion of testing procedures because steroids "are not worse than cigarettes." To which some major leaguers must have thought, Show me a cigarette that can help me hit 73 homers a season, and I'll buy a carton...