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...were. The floor manager, an imposing woman with a tight pony-tail, taught us to applaud wildly, shut-the-hell-up quickly and listen intently to Chris Matthews as he interrogated Alan Simpson and Jack Kemp. We could feel our faces burn from the sweltering lights and from the knowledge that we had no right to be in the middle of an NBC show proffering wisdom on the primaries. We write for FM, not The New Republic. Noah Oppenheim '00, the closest we had to a guru on political affairs, was the spokesman. The rest...
...hell are you so happy?" I reply. "You like being trapped in this hellhole day in and day out? How about you find me a bigger seat and fix this goddamn air conditioner...
...have some influence over aging Scandinavian pop stars. Sadly, it is not so. The former band mates of ABBA, the globe-conquering Swedish quartet whose voices soared and members intermarried in the 1970s, have refused a $1 billion offer to reunite for a 100-concert tour. "It's a hell of a lot of money to say no to," said ABBA alum Benny Andersson, "but we decided it wasn't for us." The overture came from a U.S.-British consortium that prefers to remain anonymous. Though ABBA disbanded in 1983, its popularity stubbornly soldiers on; sales of ABBA Gold remain...
...without ownership of the lucrative characters he created. But when Marvel went into bankruptcy in 1996 (it emerged in 1998), his contract was voided, and associate Peter Paul--Stan Lee Media's co-founder--helped him cut a new deal. Today Lee is Marvel's chairman emeritus ("Whatever the hell that means") and devotes about 10% of his time to that company. He and Paul soon lined up partnerships with such firms as IBM and Macromedia, which supplies the webisodes' animation software. "Stan isn't creating comics for Stan Lee Media," Paul says. "He's creating animation franchises...
...article about the possibility that the Pope might step down [RELIGION, Jan. 24], you mentioned that in Dante's poem Inferno, Pope Celestine V was assigned to Hell for voluntarily abdicating. You suggested that this condemnation was in some way mitigated by the fact that Celestine was placed "only in the first circle of Hell: Limbo." In fact, many translators label Celestine's place in Hell "the antechamber," and (to Dante, anyway) Celestine resides among the most despised souls. CHRISTIAN TALBOT New York City...