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...many shows. It was a political satire, a searing medical drama, a Marx Brothers--like comedy, a tense war comedy, a sex farce and a liberal soapbox. But from its acerbic early years to its earnest latter seasons (starring--above, from left--Alan Alda, Harry Morgan and Mike Farrell), it was a tour de force of TV writing. This 36-disc set offers it all, plus documentaries, a trivia game and the 1970 movie by the late Robert Altman. (The spin-off AfterM*A*S*H is thankfully omitted.) Fire up the still and settle in for a long, hilarious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Boffo TV Boxes | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...odds when he announced his retirement in 2003. Then 34, he had lived the Ur-rap narrative--make tapes, launch a label, buy a De Beers diamond mine--and bragged about it on a dozen often brilliant albums. But no rapper is immune to the pull of the mike, and on Kingdom Come, his heavily hyped comeback, Jay-Z tries to subvert the problem of having said everything by saying everything a little differently. Where once his delivery had the ring-a-ding-ding smoothness of Sinatra--another vocalist who made callousness seem like charm--Jay recognizes that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Un-Retirement of Jay-Z | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...keep things moving in that direction, the school district emphasizes customer service. In many neighborhoods, the buses stop every fifth of a mile. "Legally, we only have to put a stop every two miles, but we wouldn't be very popular if we did," says Mike Mulheirn, who oversees the school district's transportation system. "The seats," he notes, "are well padded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When Public Schools Aren't Color-Blind | 11/26/2006 | See Source »

...Crimson, however, was able to recover quickly, tying the score before the frame ended. Junior forward Mike Taylor got Harvard on the board at 14:15, depositing the puck into the left corner of the net from inside the right faceoff circle to cut the Bobcats’ lead...

Author: By Daniel J. Rubin-wills, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Upends No. 20 Quinnipiac | 11/25/2006 | See Source »

...most respected evangelical leaders, president of the 30 million strong National Association of Evangelicals, and one of the country’s most outspoken critics of homosexuality, seems to have been fibbing. In particular, he sparked some confusion late last month when a former male escort, Mike Jones of Denver, accused Haggard of having solicited sexual relations and narcotics from him multiple times over a three year period. Haggard, after a bit of denial, some nervous laughter and a few calls of “election year politics,” then publicly admitted that he was indeed...

Author: By Michael Segal | Title: Hate the Sinner, Love the Sin | 11/21/2006 | See Source »

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