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...Jennifer Lopez), Ollie Trinke (Ben Affleck), a workaholic music publicist whose pathological impatience is both his greatest asset and worst liability, is left to take care of their baby, a daughter he names Gertie. Unable to cope with his wife’s death or his new role as parent, Trinke immerses himself in work until his father, Bart (George Carlin), refuses to take care of Gertie any longer. Flustered, abandoned, and completely covered in baby powder, Trinke has a very public nervous breakdown at a news conference. Though Affleck should never attempt to cry on film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO HEADLINE | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

However, Associate Professor in the School of Cartoon and Comic Art at Kyoto Seika University Matt Thorn disagrees. As president of the Parent-Teacher Association at his son’s public Japanese elementary school, Thorn has first-hand experience of Japanese cuteness, which gives him the authority to refute a cynical view of cute culture. He describes his comic art students as “talented and intelligent...as well as cute,” and argues that they do not use cuteness as a form of escapism...

Author: By Alexandra M. Hays, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Hello Harvard! | 4/22/2004 | See Source »

...measured by the "character energy and ambition" which he develops; and, correspondingly, the ability of a teacher is judged not merely by his contributions to science, but by the inspirational and energizing influence of his teaching. Less broadly elective, education has become "a selective process." No longer the illumined parent but the illumined university says to the $500 boy; "Back to the workshop, back to the farm...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The New Heresy | 4/21/2004 | See Source »

...listening to satellite radio. She says the market would explode if a popular shock jock like Howard Stern were to defect with his 15 million listeners, a prospect that looked more likely last week after six traditional stations dropped his show following an FCC proposal to fine their corporate parent, Clear Channel Communications, $495,000 for airing his "indecent" content...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Revolution In Radio | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

...prison for his role in the Enron megafraud; in Houston. Fastow reneged after a judge said he would not abide by a plea bargain that called for her to spend only five months in jail, a deal designed to ensure that their children would have at least one parent at home. Her trial is scheduled for June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 19, 2004 | 4/19/2004 | See Source »

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