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Or, at least, that’s how I help justify my own hopeless obsession, but I’m afraid the key word in regards to that justification is not Rotisserie, but fantasy.

Author: By Caleb W. Peiffer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: .45 CALEBER: Appeal of Rotisserie Baseball Academic | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

But while the style of campus comedy may be similar to those role models (and yes, that means a lavish use of profanity), its subject matter tends to be considerably less angry and less political than, say, Rock's or South Park's. Instead, student stand-ups prefer to riff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hear the One About the Boring English Teacher? | 4/13/2006 | See Source »

Like his idol, Hodgman, 34, has forged a career as an urbane literary figure and satirist of the urbanely literate. A Yale grad and former book agent, he has had a short story (edited by Plimpton) published in the Paris Review and writes nonfiction for the New York Times Magazine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Comedy Forging the Future: Tweedy, Literate and Very Dry | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

These days the bench is mostly empty. Of his dozen friends, Shawn says just one or two are still at Shelbyville High. If some cliques are defined by a common sport or a shared obsession with Yu-Gi-Oh! cards, Shawn's friends ended up being defined by their mutual...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dropout Nation | 4/9/2006 | See Source »

The familiar pink packet has become emblematic of America's diet obsession. Sweet'N Low, the low-cal sugar substitute, was invented by Brooklynite Benjamin Eisenstadt, who also created sugar packets, Butter Buds and Nu-Salt. His creativity may be genetic: his grandson is the gifted pop-culture historian Rich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Briefs: Revenge Served Sweet | 4/2/2006 | See Source »

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