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...alone. Around the cable dial, a bevy of B-, C- and sometimes A-list names are opening their immaculately crafted doors to a burgeoning group of celebrity home-tour shows, a new breed of house porn for weary nesters with neither time nor inclination even to pretend to want to Do It Themselves. On E!'s daytime-Emmy-nominated Celebrity Homes (daily, 7 p.m. E.T.), host Suzanne Sena guides us from Hugh Hefner's grotto at the Playboy Mansion to Ed McMahon's baby pictures in his kitchen to professional former star Danny Bonaduce's guitar collection...
...won’t pretend that all Harvard students desire from the box is news and information. The TV’s primary role is as a source of diversion; but is there really anything wrong with that? Intramural sports are not academic, and they’re not in any danger of being eliminated. The Grille is a popular source of diversion and it’s not about to be shut down—oops, bad example...
...build a more modern, more powerful nation. But in the wrong hands, they could pose great dangers. Before you knew it, people might start demanding more liberties, as indeed at various times they did. That is why the more authoritarian Japanese leaders and their intellectual apologists liked to pretend that foreign ideas were nothing more than tools...
It’s ironic, when you consider it. Grades are the arena of Harvard competition, the place where everyone can line up and see where they stand (you, in Group I! you, over there in Group II!)—and we pretend that nobody cares...
...data looking for themselves, but clear distinctions were hard to find. So far, the unpublished study has offered us only two kinds of children: those raised at home by their mothers (about 1 in 4 children) and everyone else. Which begs the question that the researchers didn't even pretend to answer: Why would kids who are cared for by anyone other than Mom develop disruptive behaviors, and what should we do about...