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Harvard's resident jack-of-all-positions, junior John Franey, playing first base, sustained an injury to his glove hand when Northeastern's Matt Keating stepped on his thumb. According to Franey, the injury is a mild sprain...

Author: By Martin S. Bell, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Baseball Gets Untracked, Unloads on Northeastern 6-1 | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...American network executives will go to win the ratings race. All around the world, even more shocking game shows exist. In England, game shows like "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush" involve people performing sometimes lewd and embarrassing acts for a surprisingly small amount of money. This is mild compared to some of the Japanese and Australian game shows. Are American TV executives so concerned about ratings that they are willing to put anything on television, regardless of its moral implications? From the latest two imports from Europe, that certainly seems to be the case...

Author: By Matthew Hudson, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dying Gaul: Drama You Can Download | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

Host Family works very well as a beach novel-the kind of book that serves well as a fast read, mild entertainment to pass the time. It's an interesting story, but there's not enough there to stretch over 300 pages. Still, if you can tolerate Medwed's sometimes grating style-her metaphors are either clichs (the rejected wife is compared to numerous broken down appliances) or are awkwardly creative ("She's followed the blue equivalent of the yellow brick road and has landed at her own fully personalized Oz")-you many get a laugh out of the ridiculous...

Author: By Megan Guy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Host Overstays Welcome | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...this popularity necessarily a good thing? How far will American television go? All around the world, even more shocking game shows exist. In England, game shows like "Don't Forget Your Toothbrush" involve people performing sometimes lewd and embarrassing acts for a surprisingly small amount of money. This is mild compared to some of the Japanese and Australian game shows. Are American TV executives so concerned about ratings that they are willing to put anything on television, regardless of its moral implications? From the latest two imports from Europe, that certainly seems to be the case...

Author: By Andrew P. Nikonchuck, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Lord of the Ratings | 4/21/2000 | See Source »

...anarchist (Fight Club). Sometimes he's the bad boy: an ex-con luring a respectable pal into the gambling underworld (Rounders) or a neo-Nazi with an impressionable kid brother (American History X). And once or twice--in his heralded movie debut Primal Fear, for example--he is both mild and wild, with schizophrenic tendencies bubbling up at whim or will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Norton Exposure | 4/17/2000 | See Source »

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