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Rick Borovoy, a graduate student at MIT who's a former college classmate of mine, called me at the office the other day with an urgent message. He wanted me to investigate a phenomenon he had observed: the movie musical moment...
Some of the audience had to be tethered to their third-mezzanine front-row seats, such was the excitement for the opening of "Pokemon Live." The stage show adaptation of the kiddie-cult Pokemon (Japlish for "Pocket Monsters") phenomenon has officially begun its year-long national tour at New York's Radio City Music Hall. Flying completely under critics' radar, and presented with zero irony, "Pokemon Live" reveals itself as the 21st century's version of "The Magic Flute...
...long as it requires people to abandon hope of full recovery, hospice is unlikely to become a mainstream phenomenon. Most people want to fight, hang on, hope for a miracle. Recently, Cummins, the jazz producer, heard that he could qualify for a clinical trial. He knew the trial carried only a remote possibility of a cure, but he didn't want to give up. Even so, when he and Nancy totaled the cost of his pain medications--$2,250 a month--they were presented with a cruel choice: opt for hospice to save money, or go for the trial...
...will respond, we are heartened by administrators' recognition of the educational value of open Internet access. Harvard provides Internet access to students primarily in order to assist them in academic research; however, free and unfettered access also allows students to benefit from Internet communication as a social and cultural phenomenon. Any moral, ethical or legal obligations cited by Metallica's attorneys are placed on the students, not the University; part of character education is to entrust students with the freedom to make wrong decisions, and Harvard has good reason to expect its students to act as responsibly online...
Skillfully managed, gracious and well spoken, Thorpe has been embraced by a public disturbed by the antics of sportsmen such as local tennis brat Lleyton Hewitt. Thorpe's impact on Australian youth has been compared with the Tiger Woods phenomenon in golf. "He's become a similar figure of hope, an ultimate role model," argues 1988 Olympic 200-m champion Duncan Armstrong. Thorpe has been a cover boy on magazines ranging from the frivolous to the prestigious, and many Australians feel they know a lot about him--from his shoe size (17) to his taste in music (grunge...