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...living researching and promulgating his theories. Ever since, he's hammered a simple message: commercial pet food - on which Australians spend $A1.3 billion a year - is bad for cats and dogs, which should be eating raw, meaty bones. Many vets have wearied of him; others mock him. The A.V.A. denies trying to silence Lonsdale. It says it canceled his membership in response to an e-mail he sent last year to - among others - all New South Wales state parliamentarians. In the message, Lonsdale called for action on his own "allegations of scientific and consumer fraud perpetrated upon an unsuspecting Australian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Picking Meaty Bones | 6/22/2004 | See Source »

Before his mock detainment, Ali—who, despite his sometimes dim-witted persona, is the Cambridge University-educated Sacha Baron Cohen off stage—was eager to display his own depth of knowledge...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ali G Offends, Entertains on a Hot Class Day | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Waving his hands in mock-gangsta motions, the comedian enthusiastically lauded the wide variety of academic specialties at Harvard—from students who are “good at counting,” to historians who can tell “what did Lincoln give America, except for the towncar,” to English concentrators who have “memorized the entire alphabet from...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Ali G Offends, Entertains on a Hot Class Day | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

...There was a group of D.U. people that couldn’t give a shit,” Kowal says. “But another group was asking,” he says taking on a mock English accent, “‘What is this...

Author: By Véronique E. Hyland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Eight Female Students Punch All-Male Final Club | 6/9/2004 | See Source »

...Trier professes to idolize Leth's 1967 short The Perfect Human, an elegant, mock-anthropological treatise on man's imperfectability. But to Von Trier, a hero is still a potential patsy. He dares Leth to remake The Perfect Human five different times, each under bizarre conditions imposed by his sponsor. Whatever humiliation Von Trier imagined, Leth makes the results (and the film that documents them) fascinating. The Five Obstructions is a kind of reality-TV show for art-movie lovers--an up-market Fear Factor--and, finally, proof that art is created not despite but because of the impediments surrounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Five Difficult Pieces | 6/7/2004 | See Source »

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