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...visitor to the U.S. uncovered so much about the strange folkways of the natives. The cheerful curiosity of Sacha Baron Cohen's blithely ignorant foreigner is mostly matched by the friendly, if often deranged, behavior of the people he ropes into being themselves. Thus, this happy, hurtful comedy--the gut-bustingly funniest since the South Park movie--is also one of the year's most revealing doc(not just mock)umentaries...
...just so impressed with Drew’s line tonight,” Harvard Coach Frank Sullivan said. “He’s played a lot of minutes this week, he’s done a lot of studying this week, and to see him just gut it out, to me, was just terrific.” ON THE ROAD Harvard faced probably its most hostile environment of the season. Many of those in attendance were apparently unafraid to voice their opinions. At times, observers might have thought that there were 2,000 amateur refs and coaches...
...Preliminary Report’s categories and nomenclature. Philip Fisher, the Reid professor of English and American literature, extended this theme, hypothesizing that vague categories such as the newly proposed group of courses on “human beings” might open general education to “gut courses” that will “embarrass us.”But beyond the categories, the real source of embarrassment for the future of general education will come if the Preliminary Report’s guiding philosophy continues to be ignored. Rather than debate the viability of teaching...
Litvinenko got sick the evening of Nov. 1, when alpha particles were destroying the lining of his gut. As he began to suspect poison, he focused on two meetings he had earlier that day. One was at a sushi bar in central London with Mario Scaramella, 36, an Italian lawyer and, like Litvinenko, a man drawn to the world of secret information and conspiracy theories. The second meeting was in the Pine Bar of the Millennium Hotel, near the U.S. embassy, with a group of Russian businessmen with whom Litvinenko was apparently hatching business ventures in Britain. "Alexander said both...
...time expired. “We were on the opposite end of a lot of those games last year where we were losing at the buzzer,” said senior captain and shooting guard Jim Goffredo. “This early in the season, to be able to gut a game like that out on the road is big for us.” The seven-foot Cusworth finished the victory over UNH with a double-double, scoring a team-high 23 points, one short of his season-high, and also leading the team in rebounds with...