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Then comes October: football season and playoff time, an awkward coexistence. October throws baseball under the rug for days-long stretches, and then FOX throws baseball at your face. Jeanne Zelasko, Kevin Kennedy, and Ken Rosenthal are the network’s on-air talents. Tim McCarver still broadcasts games. And they wonder why ratings are down...
...spanish mission-style mansion in Sydney's eastern suburbs, Japan's consul-general is showing off his art collection. With glass of red wine in hand, Tsukasa Kawada points out a triptych of sketches depicting traditional Japanese musicians: Two are by celebrated Australian artist Ken Done, but the third and most colorful is his own work. "I bought this frame and there were three spaces, so I put my own drawing in," the genial Kawada explains. It's a thumb-sized symbol of cultural exchange, and one that is amplified when five Sydney Symphony musicians proceed to perform a sprightly...
...resounding chord with a class of African-Americans that a couple of years later, a record number of African-American candidates are vying for upper-tier political offices. From gubernatorial candidates Deval L. Patrick ’78 in the state of Massachusetts, Lynn Swann of Pennsylvania, and Ken Blackwell of Ohio to senatorial candidates Michael Steele of Maryland and Harold Ford Jr. of Tennessee, more African-Americans than ever have stepped up to bat in what can be considered the major league of our nation’s political arena. Obama is not the only reason for these candidates...
...passengers of United 93, are nearly nameless. The spirit with which they fight to escape their fate suggests the way other 9/11 victims might have resisted, given the chance, thereby lending a grander sense of purpose to Greengrass’ film. On the other side of the spectrum is Ken Kalfus’ new novel “A Disorder Peculiar to the Country,” (see review, B3) which portrays the acrimonious divorce between Joyce and Marshall Harriman. Although the novel has a tighter focus than “United 93,” it isn?...
...have received a positive reaction in the gallery’s comment book, but this has not been the case for every exhibit at Three Columns. Musser, a resident tutor in Mather, remembers the controversy that surrounded a show organized by the previous curator. “He made Ken dolls, but he disfigured them as if they were returning veterans from the Iraq war,” she says. Musser says that “a lot of people were like ‘I’m offended that you’re choosing to protest...