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...Sharp jokes, nutty family: in that sense, there's no difference between Arrested Development and Raymond. But Arrested is different in other ways--and thank God, since sitcoms are in a years-long creative and ratings slump. Whereas most sitcoms are set in that familiar fake world of couches and canned laughter, Arrested Development looks real and spontaneous. It has no laugh track and is shot documentary style, in handheld digital video, with sober narration by Ron Howard (a partner in Imagine, the show's production company). Viewers often think the show is improvised (like HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm...
...miles away, Bush questioned Kerry's steadfastness against the threat of terrorism: "You can't win a war when you don't believe you're fighting one." The sniping was more than rhetorical. In exchanges like those and during their three head-to-head debates, the candidates have revealed sharp differences in how they view the world. Bush sees Iraq as central to the campaign against al-Qaeda; Kerry calls Iraq a diversion from it. Kerry stresses the need to work within alliances; Bush has shown a propensity to act alone. The President speaks openly of using force to promote...
...Yard, proving that, yes, Harvard kids can have fun. Yet these festivities do more than suggest that students at the College can occasionally break out of the mold and get a little rowdy. They also show that revelry after a sports victory can be safe—in sharp contrast with the riots at the same time downtown...
...punctuated with valuable tips from Gourmet's eight test kitchens on such matters as how to properly store food (never refrigerate tomatoes, for instance-it makes them mealy and kills flavor), when to use which kind of rice, and how to remove fish skins (a paper towel and a sharp knife work best...
aSmallWorld is one of several sites accused by sharp-tongued bloggers, like New York's Gawker, of velvet-roping the Internet. Another site is LinkedIn, which connects in-the-know businesspeople looking for partners and employees. Google has an invitation-only network, orkut, and recently launched an exclusive e-mail service, Gmail. If your invitation to snooty sites gets, um, lost in the mail, you can always check out social-networking free-for-alls such as tribe or MySpace or get-together stalwart Meetup...