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...columns: Maggie Mayhem (Kristen Wiig), Rosa Sparks (Eve), Bloody Holly (Zoe Bell) and Smashly Simpson (Barrymore, cheerfully taking on the role of team idiot). Their coach is Razor, and he's played by the third and least well-known Wilson brother, Andrew. Juliette Lewis is fairly terrifying as Iron Maven, the star player for the Hurl Scouts' rival team...
...Unfortunately, the rest of the album falls predictably into two commercial mainstays: the ostentatiously scored, teen-baiting love ballad ("Iron Butterfly") and overtly energetic vocals underpinned with tacky electro beats ("Rock Your Body"). Both sorts are competently produced here, and disappointment sets in not at their presentation but at the potential wasted. Alisa has the talent to gun for critical approval. But she is being steered instead toward commercial safety...
...point: The CEB is not allowed to enter into any contracts surrounding campus events or even have much to do with their scheduling. In years past, they have been told simply that certain events must occur each year, left only to devise the frilly details of the gatherings. The iron fist of social programming is entrusted only to recent Harvard undergraduates, as the administration feels that only a former Harvard student could navigate the complex social and administrative bureaucracies on campus. This “Harvard-only” mentality, I should note, was also espoused by Drew Faust?...
...threats of violence. But in the end, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said the risk of attacks was too high. "We're not talking about a handful of hooligans - there were several thousand people ready to attack the participants and the police with everything from Molotov cocktails to knives, iron bars and steel-ball slingshots," Dacic told the Blic newspaper on Tuesday, Sept. 22. "They also planned to attack Western embassies." (Read "Why Asia's Gays Are Starting to Win Acceptance...
...those who organized it," Mladen Obradovic, a leader of Obraz, said in a television interview on Sept. 17. "They cannot expect to poke their finger in the eye of our nation and go unpunished." The same day, several French tourists were viciously attacked by soccer hooligans wielding iron bars while they sat at a café in downtown Belgrade following a soccer match. One of the men is still in a coma. Three days later, an Australian tourist was beaten up by thugs who thought he "looked gay," police said. (Read "Russia to Gays: Get Back into the Closet...