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...held dear to Americans—our country has “In God We Trust” set in bold on its currency. And, as The New York Times pointed out, even the Supreme Court justices “begin their daily sessions with heads bowed as the marshal intones ‘God save the United States and this honorable court.’” But, the words “under God” were not included in the original construction of the pledge; they were added in 1954 during the Eisenhower Administration in recognition...
...senior class’s most eccentric members, Thompson S. Craaps ’04, had his class marshal bid go the way of his UC presidential candidacy, as he failed to secure one of the final spots. It seems that Craaps’s promise to host the first senior bar at the Cambridge Home for the Aged and Infirmed—an event titled “Boozin’ wit’ da Biddies”—and to schedule a lesbian midget ultimate fighting cage match (to the death) in lieu of a class...
...title character of Karen Sisco (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. E.T.), a U.S. marshal in Miami, spends the first episode with an ugly bruise at the top of her left breast. You can read this image three ways: 1) here is a cop not afraid to get hurt bringing in the bad guys; 2) here is a new TV babe with a "Look over here!" sign above her decolletage; 3) here is a woman with a wound over her heart...
...Motown cool, you should watch it with shades on--but, more important, it has Leonard's sense of the imperfections of humanity. It has good guys and bad guys, but they share similar flaws and yearnings. The show's moral center is Karen's dad (Robert Forster), a former marshal who has a weekly card game with a group of ex-cons. Learning that Karen's new boyfriend may be involved in shady dealings, he just says, "Takes all kinds to make a world, sweetheart. The trick is to keep in mind which kind...
...exes--who is still sweet on him--whether she'd kill him if it came to that. "I don't really care how good a listener he is," Karen says. Other actresses would snap out the line glibly; Gugino gives it the voice of both a dedicated marshal and a woman weary of slick-talking men. Karen Sisco is like that: a witty, mature drama that can hit both the chest and the heart. --By James Poniewozik