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...wasn't your typical coming out party. Braving heavy snow and bitter-cold winds to profess political beliefs they said were in the minority on campus, about 50 students last night gathered at the Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel for a "conservative coming out dinner...
...politics. But Watergate was about clear abuses of presidential power, not middle-aged sex play and the attendant embarrassments, and it ended with Richard Nixon in pieces on the ground. By comparison, Bill Clinton is merely scuffed and dented, and his accusers are on the defensive, while most people profess indifference to the whole matter. So everything that happened in the past year points to two conclusions that appear contrary but may not be. One is that in the next election, what used to be called the private life of a candidate will be anything but private. The other...
...your life by pressing a few buttons. Their state-of-the-art technology makes them omnipotent and omniscient in this computer age, utilizing the Internet, telephone lines and microwave transmissions to pinpoint your location and observe your actions anywhere you try to hide. Even though most conspiracy theorists profess the above statements as absolute facts, rarely can they answer one simple question: who are "they?" Enemy of the State is yet another movie with a central character who is desperately trying to answer this question. This time, the result is a thrilling, high-paced, intense battle between Will Smith...
...true opera lover that loves to soak up every last bit of juicy opera gossip, this is a book that could easily be read in one sitting, as the comments on the back of the book jacket profess. For all of those sane, not-yet-obsessed opera fans, however, the book will take a little more effort. Although written in a relaxed, unpretentious style, the narrative is inundated with the names of every important performer, publicist, conductor and record company CEO in the business, not to mention the titles and allusions to plot synopses of most of the major operas...
...these lines of straight Shakespeare that the cast's comic engineering is most visible. Shakespeare is reinvented Amelia Bedelia-style with a suggestiveness that invites one to reconsider the comic potential inherent in even the most serious Shakespearean dialogues. Here all those idiosyncracies of Elizabethan English that we profess to understand in section are given a thorough airing. What does the guard mean with his "Stand and unfold yourself?" When did thumb-biting stop being synonymous with giving someone the birdie? Just as Hamlet uses the Death of Gonzago as a way to find his accusatory voice, this play allows...