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...another manicured go-getter with a public relations problem: John Kerry. "Kerry had it in him," the Sex and the City star and outspoken Democrat says, but like Meredith, "he just couldn't get it across the footlights to the people." Instead of red staters, Parker's rigid, pencil-skirt-and-pumps-clad city type is attempting to win over the Stones, her fiancé DERMOT MULRONEY's large "nubby, woolly, pajamas-all-day, college-town" family--played by, among others, CRAIG T. NELSON, DIANE KEATON, LUKE WILSON and CLAIRE DANES. That's almost a voting bloc...
...country, who helped him learn the trade secrets (you can pay $300 for a beaver top hat like Lincoln's, but a hand-me-down from the local theater troupe will do; always have a snappy response to kids' favorite question: "Aren't you dead?"; a little piece of pencil eraser affixed above the right corner of your mouth can serve as Lincoln's prominent mole; if you're not quite as tall as Lincoln, you might say, "Few men could measure...
...opinion, staff members like to joke that "if it's bad for the country, it's good for the Nation." In a political age dominated by bloggers, conservatives and cable news, the Nation delivers a regular helping of unfashionably liberal journalism printed on gray butcher paper, lightened only by pencil drawings and the mordant poetry of Calvin Trillin. The formula is working: since the election of George W. Bush in 2000, its circulation has soared 96%, to 184,000; in 2004 the magazine enjoyed its best year ever, reversing years of losses to turn a profit...
Paper, like the Hubble Space Telescope and the Northern Spotted Owl, will soon become history. Harvard is following suit. In a dramatic overhaul of the existing system, the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) has shifted away from traditional paper-and-pencil evaluations to entirely online forms, to be joined in 2006 by an exclusively online CUE Guide. But while the online system instituted this semester holds many potential advantages, it could also exacerbate problems with participation and statistical accuracy. Such issues should be addressed now before they have far-ranging effects...
This is the same creature who eats a pencil, a typewriter, and a phone, all while trying desperately to get a letter to Santa in “Christmas Eve on Sesame Street.†Maybe little kids are getting dumber, but not only did I refrain from becoming a cookie fiend from this monster’s influence, I also never ate a typewriter...