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Mooseport and Handy’s relationship are shaken up by the tumultuous arrival of the recently retired U.S. President, a Clinton-hating, Yale-loving jerk named Monroe “Eagle” Cole (Gene Hackman). Through a series of mind-numbing mix-ups (the less said, the better), Handy and the ex-president end up running against each other in the town’s mayoral race. Soon they’re playing a round of golf to decide not only their respective political futures, but who gets to date Sally...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FILMREVIEW | 2/20/2004 | See Source »

During the ECAC coaches’ conference call, Mazzoleni said many expressed a desire to avoid a “knee-jerk reaction...

Author: By Jon PAUL Morosi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Leaman All Business in Return to HarvardLeaman All Business in Return to Harvard | 2/13/2004 | See Source »

...Dean too extreme? On the critical matter of national security, Dean has a more defensible record than Kerry. He backed the first Gulf War, which Kerry couldn't bring himself to do, and the Afghanistan war. His opposition to the Iraq campaign is less a function of knee-jerk isolationism or even left-wing pacifism than a pragmatic judgment about how to fight best. No, alas, he's no Joe Lieberman in the war on terrorism. But his character suggests far more backbone in foreign affairs than does Kerry's Hamlet-like anguish and spin. I don't see Dean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why I'm Rooting for Howard Dean | 2/9/2004 | See Source »

...Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise of the show. Then they set the show at VH1 instead of a magazine--and made Joel an incredibly unlikable jerk. It had morphed from my idea to an idea that kids who used to beat me up would have liked. After I showed an episode to my father, who gushes over everything I do, he delivered what was supposed to be a comforting speech about how many bad movies Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: How I Nearly Killed VH1 | 2/2/2004 | See Source »

...Next they concluded that booking celebrities for interviews was too difficult, so they wrote fake interviews and had actors pretend to be the guests, thereby removing the entire premise of the show. Then they set the show at VH1 instead of a magazine - and made Joel an incredibly unlikable jerk. It had morphed from my idea to an idea that kids who used to beat me up would have liked. After I showed an episode to my father, who gushes over everything I do, he delivered what was supposed to be a comforting speech about how many bad movies Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Nearly Killed VH1 | 1/26/2004 | See Source »

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