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Clearly there's a hunger for insight, however painful, on the end-time fears particular to our time. The cold war stories could pin the disaster on a simple East-West showdown. The new apocalypses are more shadowy, less ideological. In Jericho, we do not know who attacked or why. In The Road, the cataclysm may have been war, or it may have been an asteroid strike. Who would do this? you might ask these works. Terrorists? A superpower? Americans? God? Their unspoken shrug: Any. All. None. Pick a number...
...that bright, and any skit over 30 seconds long merely belabors the point. As Streisand’s lackluster satire went forward, order collapsed faster than Air America’s ratings. One audience member began to heckle Streisand and her Bush lookalike, setting off a major showdown with the Brooklyn-born diva. Not to be upstaged by someone offstage, Streisand decided to meet chutzpah with chutzpah...
...that the threat's a crock, the real and imagined horrors of a briefcase-bully will send many of us wheedling for absolution just to stay out of court. We're cowards that way, shy about calling the bluff of those litigious little creeps who itch for a legal showdown over every petty spat...
PROVIDENCE—As many Brown fans were seen straggling into Stevenson Field during the second half of Saturday’s soccer showdown with Harvard, several voiced the same reaction upon seeing the scoreboard: “Oh my God.”In the first 12 minutes of play during that second frame, the Harvard men’s soccer team scored three goals en route to a 6-2 rout of the favored No. 14 Bears (8-3-1, 2-1-1 Ivy). Saturday’s win put the Crimson...
...resurgence of the Harvard secondary will be particularly significant as the Crimson looks ahead to next week’s showdown with fellow unbeaten Princeton...