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Alternatively, the Harvard Society of Arab Students, in an e-mail message publicizing the same vigil, declares that Israel's actions have been condemned from many quarters, but does not mention any wrongdoing by Palestinians...
...hard on the neck, but otherwise it was awesome. I mean awesome! I was totally psyched! I figured to win the 200-m freestyle and the single scull. But who would have thought I'd also take the decathlon, the triathlon and the mathlon, not to mention the pommel horse, the high horse, the gift horse and the pole vault with horse? By the time I got to the 50,000-m, trans-Sydney long jump, I was wiped. The Games take their toll on an old sport...
They may have lacked a certain something in spontaneity, but last week's presidential and vice-presidential debates did offer some revealing moments. Aside from their tendency to snort and sigh, the men at the top of the ticket also seemed disinclined to yield precious seconds for a mention of their running mates. Let's see if they behave more generously in this week's installment...
...bond can be secured by any dependable stream of revenue--corporate earnings, tax receipts, mortgage payments, Bag of Bones royalties. Bag of Bones? Well, yes, not to mention Carrie, The Shining and The Green Mile. You see, Wall Street financier David Pullman, who in 1997 rocked investors with "Bowie bonds," backed by royalties on the songs of David Bowie, is planning to create securities based on the earnings of authors. And while Pullman won't name the writers he has approached, may we suggest that a Stephen King bond would be an excellent investment opportunity...
...political cartoonist Ranan Lurie, lets his large, attractive cast display varieties of charisma and chicanery for an hour or so. Then he has everyone make speeches; it's as though a TV remote control had switched from The West Wing to the Lieberman-Cheney debate. All drama, not to mention insider dish, gets lost in the wind tunnel. By the end, The Contender is as edifying and stultifying as--what would the real-life equivalent be?--a Ralph Nader presidency...