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Even his friends suggest a dark side. "Will Smith is Evander Holyfield, and Martin is Mike Tyson," says Steve White, a Martin writer and onetime Lawrence roommate. "I like Tyson; he'll do anything for you. But he's misunderstood." Jamie Masada, who runs the L.A. comedy club the Laugh Factory, saw a change in Lawrence as fame engulfed him: "The illusion got to his head. He came in with bodyguards, security people. Some people can handle it. But if you're not focused and strong, it can kill...
...voted for Khatami? Iranians fed up with political and social restrictions, women chafing at dress codes, twentysomethings denied satellite dishes and dispirited citizens who never saw a reason to vote--until Khatami came along. Few misunderstood the protest message of his triumph. Says Hassan, 18, a member of the generation born after Khomeini's 1979 revolution: "We want to have more freedom here in this country." Says Abdelkarim Soroush, perhaps the regime's most prominent internal critic: "The election was a referendum on liberty, justice, everything." One supporter simply gushed, "Khatami is Ayatullah Gorbachev...
...suppose John Harvard had acted earlier--suppose, after being interviewed, he thought that the reporter may have misunderstood what he had said, or that he had been speaking too quickly. He could have called the reporter and asked him to read or e-mail his quotations back to him. Though The Crimson will not send someone the full text of a story to comment on before publication, a reporter will check a person's quotations if asked. "They should be 100 percent happy to do that," said MacMillan...
Reading Bulbul Tiwari '99's article on Baal (Arts, March 21), I was disappointed that the writer misunderstood or just plain missed so much of the brilliant production put on by Brett E. Egan '99 and Sam C. Speedie '99, but I've long since become used to Crimson reviewers being overly critical of some of HRDC's finer shows...
Leonard said other shows, such as "The Archie Bunker Show," have good intentions that are often misunderstood...