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Don’t believe everything you read in newspapers. In the aftermath of the Harvard-Yale tailgate, the Boston Herald (among others) sensationalized that the tailgate had been a raucous mess, with arrests, drugs and unsafe drinking aplenty. But these reports were remarkably misleading and sometimes blatantly inaccurate. The various articles all focus on a private party in Allston—unrelated to the tailgates at all. “The police go to the door and there is no respect,” Captain William Evans, Boston Police Department (BPD) commander of the Brighton-Allston district, remarked...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: An Undeserved Reputation | 11/29/2004 | See Source »

...indefatigable pursuer!) They've just met, but in the forced intimacy of a back seat she removes his glasses, breathes on them and returns them. She also adjusts his rumpled jacket. Her flirtations are a way of both expressing interest and asserting control. You're a mess, her fiddling says, but I'm thinking of taking you on as a reclamation project. (Woman, the ineffable sorceress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whatever Happened to Movie Sex? | 11/24/2004 | See Source »

Have a good time, Chris. Just know that everybody's gunning for you to mess up. [Laughs.] He's a wonderfully funny cat, and it's a tough gig hosting that show because 99% of the people are tuning in to see if their favorite actor won. Attention wanders in that space, so you've got to keep the audience there and awake and move the show along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Whoopi Goldberg | 11/22/2004 | See Source »

...meaningful addition to his life and legacy. With a mix of deceitful, manipulative Hollywood story telling techniques masquerading as artistic strokes and tacky, unfocused, pop-filmmaking, director Taylor Hackford, manages to turn an amazing story of sheer will triumphing over adversity into a two-and-a-half hour mess that will damage Charles’ memory, even with Jamie Foxx’s almost perfect portrayal of Ray Charles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Happening | 11/19/2004 | See Source »

MORE FAKE NEWS Jon Stewart became must viewing, with bits on the election (Fiasco Preview) and Iraq (Mess O'Potamia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parody Politics | 11/15/2004 | See Source »

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