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...read Friday’s editorial, “Please stop Moshing” (Comment, Oct. 29), I couldn’t help thinking that the exploits of the far-right Harvard students are usually good for a few harmless laughs; I even enjoy engaging in debates with my more conservative colleagues, especially as we get closer to the election this week. However, Mark Adomanis’ comments go beyond what I would consider even absurd. Of course, I appreciate the freedom to express his opinion, but it must be said that his words were absolutely ridiculous...
...exploits of far-left celebrities are usually good for a few harmless laughs; in fact, many celebrity entertainers are more entertaining when they get caught up in political analysis beyond their capacity for logic. Janeane Garofalo’s wonderfully ill-informed and childish rants about Iraq were vastly more humorous than any of her recent acting work, and Michael Moore’s battle with the word “fictitious” at the Oscar’s was similarly much more interesting than either Fahrenheit 9/11 or Bowling for Columbine...
...Laden. The most troubling image in the entire video is actually of Bin Laden, who is revealed to be a paper tiger on a soundstage along with Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld. This attitude, conflating one of the most dangerous and determined enemies we have ever faced with a harmless fabrication, is precisely the kind of dangerous naiveté that allowed September 11th to happen in the first place...
...Berry keeps her character optimistic and determined, going from lovable to intolerable and back again while she fights to find a place in her father's world. As Etienne, Bacri is brutal, callous and beyond redemption. In The Taste of Others, Bacri's lovelorn character is cranky but harmless; in Look at Me, he's pure bastard. His young wife, Karine, and his put-upon assistant, Vincent, are prime targets for his temper tantrums and cruel sarcasm, but they've got it easy compared to Lolita. Dad invites her to a party and then forgets her outside; he takes...
...country, there seem to be an increasing number of “Hepler-Smiths” and “Gould-Wartofskys.” In the interest of gender equality, married Americans seem to have developed a penchant for verbosity in surnames. It seems like a harmless trend, but these crunched-together monstrosities are calamities in waiting for the next generation...