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...mild gibes at Hollywood liberalism. He called the Oscar show ?the one night of the year when you could see all your favorite stars without having to donate any money to the Democratic Party.? He told the audience that, to many people, Hollywood was ?a moral black hole, where innocence is obliterated in an endless orgy of sexual gratification and greed.? (Pause for gentle laughter.) ?I don?t really have a joke here. I just thought you should know a lot of people are sayin? that...
...finals and received little resistance from No. 5 Mauricio Sanchez of Princeton in a 3-0 semifinal bout, setting up a showdown with No. 2-seeded El Halaby—one of the best college players of all time. Suchde started out the match in a hole, losing the first game, 9-2, and dropping the second game by shutout. He seized the momentum briefly in the third game, but ultimately fell, 9-6. “It got a little bit close, but he was better,” Suchde said. El Halaby has shut out every competitor...
...omission too much.Though the final score might not reflect it, Yale jumped out to a 16-1 lead over Penn in the two teams’ first matchup. Had the Quakers not been playing in front of the friendly Palestra crowd, Penn might have never dug out of that hole. Especially since the Bulldogs are an entirely different team at home.The one thing working in the Quakers’ favor is that this contest isn’t a trap game. Penn definitely isn’t overlooking Yale, and the Quakers get the Bulldogs first on the trip, rather...
...when lawyers for Salim Ahmad Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's alleged driver, challenge government attempts to put him on trial before a military commission. "The issue in this court case is critically important because if the government has its way, Guantanamo will be returned to a legal black hole," contends Eric M. Freedman, a professor of constitutional law at Hofstra University and legal consultant to detainees, though not al-Qahtani. "It would be an outrage if evidence being used to hold prisoners was extracted by unconscionable methods and that fact did not come to light in a court...
...traditionalist administration. But the problem with big stars is their gravitational pull. It's hard for anyone in the vicinity to stop orbiting around them and find their own course. And Jim's ego, manic moods and binge drinking start to make him seem more like a black hole than a star...