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RAINN WILSON stands in as CNN weatherman, fails to make obvious name pun...
...Trek's upcoming 20th anniversary, the new film purports to be the closest so far in form and feeling to the original TV shows. Nimoy directed, as he did the third movie, and he claims, straight-faced as always, ''It has the most down-to-earth structure--pardon the pun--of all four films.'' Oh, those Vulcans. Aren't they just the ones to always be making...
...Exploring that bifurcation is the business of The Fortune Cookie Chronicles by New York Times reporter Jennifer 8. Lee (whose curious middle name, 8., is a pun on the Chinese word for prosperity). A Chinese-American from New York City, Lee had her interest in Chinese food piqued during a year spent studying in Beijing, where she was continuously reminded that the real cuisine was nothing like the deep-fried, sauce-coated dishes U.S. diners thought of as Chinese. Chinese food in China, she knew, was much healthier, with less sodium and grease (and more varied animal parts) than Americans...
...board as soon as possible,” Harry Potter fan Christina M. Giordano ’10 says of the Muggle Quidditch phenomenon. “I mean, we are the school that most resembles Hogwarts. We can’t drop the ball on this one. Pun intended.” The tamer version of Quidditch, however, doesn’t appeal to all fans: Edmund G. Soriano ’11 says, “I’d consider playing if we had flying brooms and Madam Pomfrey.” While everyday brooms...
Rick Ross really is “Mr. Miami.” Witha body mass matched only by his enormouscharisma and raspy, throbbingbaritone, it’s easy to make comparisonsto other notorious biggies, like Fat Joe orBig Pun. But before I commit hip-hopheresy and put Ross in the same ranksas Christopher Wallace, it’s important toacknowledge a whopper of a differencebetween the two. While Ross may havethe size and the fan appeal, he lacks thelyrical ability and thematic diversity ofhis heavy predecessor. Then again, “Trilla”is only Ross?...