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...short, Butterfly strikes out in few interesting directions, and even the departures from the norm are not always successful. In fact, the whole project marks a big step down for a singer with nearly a decade's experience under her dainty golden charm belt...
...article might be entitled "The Canadian Invasion" and mention Lee, as well as John Candy, Jim Carrey, Norm McDonald, Dan Aykroyd, Martin Short, Alex Trebek, Celine Dion, the Barenaked Ladies and some of the many others I have neglected to mention. -Marcus J. Moore...
...church ceremony at one university-even if it is Harvard-is more like a bone thrown to the gay and lesbian community than it is a burgeoning national commitment to lesbian and gay issues. Marriage is a way for lesbians and gay men to fit in, to mimic the norm. Same-sex marriage is, in fact, quite conservative; there is no radical departure from social mores, just an attempt to integrate those previously excluded into a culture that is unchanged...
...only time the U.S. military has gone on record saying that flying saucers exist, it has become a cornerstone of belief for the UFO community. They are, by the way, quite a diverse and fractious group of folks--studies say they tend to be better educated than the norm--whose numbers include casual believers; so-called UFOlogists, most of whom are pretty earnest in their efforts to document UFO sightings with something approaching objective rigor; contactees, who believe they have had telepathic communication with aliens; abductees, who believe they have been subjected to experimentation by E.T.s; and cultists like...
Graduating with honors has now become the norm rather than the exception, says former Dean of Undergraduate Education Lawrence Buell...