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...First-Year Outdoor Program excursion—the two just don’t jive. Most of the guys obsess over their ages, and the onset of their mid-life crises becomes the focus of the movie. Meanwhile, their wives and girlfriends form cliques, mock the men, and joke about swapping husbands. In fact, the characters refuse to discuss anything but sex and old age. The racy scenes spiral out of control until one of the men attempts suicide. Without warning, “Sing Now” brings a serious moral theme into focus—marriage and life...
...rapes you prevent because, well, they don’t happen,” said Nowski, who also works with the Freshman Residential Education Program.She remembered walking through the Yard and being stopped by a freshman.“She was like, ‘Do you remember that joke you made? I was with a guy and it was at that point where it was really awkward and I didn’t know what to say, and I told him the joke and it helped,’” Nowski recalled...
...Asked several times about whether Alberto Gonzales should resign, McCain was coy on Wednesday: "Ask me tomorrow," he said, grinning, clearly implying that tomorrow, he'd make some news by calling for the Attorney General's resignation. Reporters nudged each other, happy to be in on the joke. But why not now just tell us now, we asked. "I don't want to step on the story," he said. And then, he did. Hours later reporters learned that McCain had, literally, hopped off the Straight Talk Express to talk to noted White House correspondent Larry King, with whom...
...basketball, the meaning of his words for women’s sports has somehow been woefully lost. The networks’ knee-jerk response—silencing Imus —fails miserably to deal with the question at hand: why are women’s sports still a joke...
...discuss his comments). It didn’t matter that these women had worked tirelessly as both students and athletes to make it to this championship game. All that mattered was that they were women; and women, according to Don Imus and Bernard McGuirk, are ultimately just a joke on the basketball court...