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Backed by the Solid Gold band and featuring his longtime comedy partner Tom Davis as Keith Richards, Franken bounces around onstage and exhibits a near-perfect display of the rock star's compellingly ugly sensuality. (The "Start Me Up"-era Jazzercize outfits were a nice touch.) It's the rock-'n'-roll impersonation of a lifetime; if he retains even a tenth of this energy level in the Senate, the economy will be fixed in no time...
...really a time that they were dominating and we weren’t.”Harvard’s overall weakness in goals this season remains a mystery, especially compared with last year’s torrent of scoring. The team came back from a near-perfect season with 21 returning members, but is not churning out the same impressive victories.Vaillancourt insists that the Crimson has improved, and that there are other factors that need to be considered.“[You] have to think about the fact that other teams have changed and improved their teams...
...year. New team. That’s the motto for Harvard women’s hockey. After suffering a heartbreaking end to last year’s near-perfect season, the team’s 21 returning players and three freshmen are leaving the past behind them and looking for a fresh start...
...this dynamite drive through the Iraq occupation. (Make that war.) Except for a few digressive scenes - a solo sortie of personal vengeance, a conversation about what it all means - that could easily be cut from the 2 hr. 11 min. running time, The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about men in war, men at work. Through sturdy imagery and violent action, it says that even Hell needs heroes...
Once lost, virginity can never be replaced - but modern medicine now offers women a near-perfect physical simulation of their lost innocence. Hymenoplasty, the surgical reconstruction of the hymen broken during a women's first experience of intercourse, or, increasingly, during demanding exercise or as a result of a collision or fall by women who've never had sex, has prompted a growing number of young betrothed women in France to make a last-ditch attempt to avoid the humiliation, repudiation, and possibly violence that could result from husbands and families discovering from blood-free bridal sheets that their wedding...