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...That, too, sums up the way his bloody life is going. After years of dwelling in pop's dark obscurity, David Gray has at last discovered that the sun doesn't have to go down-and he's still basking in the glow. His album White Ladder, recorded in his living room and self-released in Ireland and Britain in 1999, broke the U.S. Top 100 chart last October and is now pushing the top 30; by the beginning of January, 850,000 copies of the album had been shipped in America. That's on top of the 1.5 million...
...Tina simply scared of the old broad when she kept her "promise" and turned on Maralyn amid the glow of the torchlights? Quite possibly. But in the end, the overarching story held: Only the young survive. Because Tina's brush-off - not much softened by the little frownie face she put on her vote - was just subplot window dressing...
...rest just smells bad. Most of us look at the platter from Aunt Katie with a wave of affection. Can you really get a warm glow from a place setting sent by a contributor you barely know who's angling for your attention? I'd stack my dishes on the floor before I'd accept a china cabinet from Walter Kaye, the insurance mogul who also delivered intern Monica Lewinsky to the West Wing...
Ross G. Douthat '02 is a history and literature concentrator in Quincy House. This is his second semester writing a column, and he plans to continue covering politics, culture and anything else that catches his eye. He also looks forward to basking in the reactionary glow of the Bush presidency. His column will appear on alternate Mondays...
...what are we to make of this? Does it really matter that scientists can make a slightly fluorescent monkey? How much demand is there for glow-in-the-dark cats, dogs or wayward kids out too late at night on their bikes...