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...slow bowler with the uncommon ability to spin a ball like a top, a "chucker"? Howard didn't hesitate: "Yes," he told supporters at a political function in rural Australia last month. Howard had, in effect, labeled the most successful bowler in cricket history and an icon in cricket-mad Sri Lanka, a cheat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Howard's Bad Spin | 6/14/2004 | See Source »

...show's script hadn't survived intact. That meant the new production required extensive revisions. Lucky for Encores!, David Ives is its script doctor in residence. Ives, whose evening of short plays known as "All in the Timing" revealed a mad-genius mastery of sketch comedy, has pruned, edited, concertized a dozen Encores! shows. Here, though, he practically had to invent a script - "Pardon My English" wasn't so much revived as vived. So Ives pinwheels his ingenuity to make the audience conspirators in the play's structural silliness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Bravo! Encores! | 6/12/2004 | See Source »

Stein said he himself was not like Ferris in high school. But even though he earned good grades, he said he was a “wild kid” who drank, smoked, cut class and “had mad crushes on bad girls,” none of whom returned the sentiment...

Author: By Jessica R. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: T.V. Deadpanner Cracks Jokes | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Posing as a British youth of indeterminate ethnic background, Baron Cohen has played on culture barriers, generation gaps and unsuspecting subjects’ trust to create a spectacle that resembles a talk show gone entirely mad. The Ali G experiment has played out in popular series on British and American television and a feature film...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Da Class Day Show | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...pilot programs to more people? Alice Waters? one-word answer to this question struck me as the most honest: Money. And that?s where the grassroots pressure comes in. The food industry will go where its customers lead them. Government ultimately has to heed the voters. ?A million mad moms? - is a phrase that echoes in my ears. There is a role for the media - my colleagues, those at ABC, and elsewhere - to educate moms and dads. Perhaps if we stop playing up the dietary confusion message and emphasize what works in fighting obesity, more folks will get mad, understand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lessons from the Summit | 6/5/2004 | See Source »

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