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...network or studio executive wanted to be quoted about specific strike plans, citing a desire to keep strategy a secret from the competition. But industry folks did share a broad idea of what to expect...
...crossed with an albatross, stands immobile behind the glass in Harvard’s Natural History Museum. The display’s other extinct birds, such as the puffin-life Great Auk, attest to this one’s rarity. But Harvard’s dodo hides a darker secret.“It’s just a replica made from duck and chicken feathers,” said Jeremiah Trimble, the curatorial associate in ornithology at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology who dusts the model from time to time.A small sign states it?...
...Lampoon editor on Sunday morning after he allegedly attempted to cut down newly planted trees on the Mt. Auburn Street island outside the Lampoon Castle. A Harvard University police officer saw James A. Powers Jr. ’08—an editor of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine—in the process of cutting down trees at about 4:45 a.m., said Cambridge Police spokesman Frank T. Pasquarello. Powers ran from the scene holding a handsaw, having slashed partway through the bases...
Hannah Montana is Superman for tween girls: she's got the secret identity, a more relevant superpower and a blond wig instead of a cape. But just as key to the show's success is her Clark Kent--the fictional Miley. Celebrity today is as rarefied as ever, yet with YouTube and reality TV, seems more accessible than ever. It's tantalizing but, as personified by Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears, terrifying. Miley--a normal, grounded schoolkid--makes the fantasy safe. The theme song says it all: "You get the best of both worlds...
...anti-Soviet mujahideen. And what of proactive U.S.- and U.K.-support for Saddam’s preemptive aggressiveness in the early 1980’s? And this against an Iran that had only recently emerged from 25 years ruled by a brutal dictator backed by an infamous, U.S.-trained secret police...