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...Harvard. I am happy to report that Jessica’s health has improved significantly from last year when I wrote my annual epistle of Hearthstone family happenings. In fact, a few more weeks of Jenny Craig and Jessica should be medically cleared to play intramural dodgeball! Like her sister, Jessica is also involved with community service. Inspired by her rare condition, she has started a student organization to help raise awareness for people like herself who suffer from Uncontrollable Flatulence Syndrome. When she’s not rallying the fight against UFS, Jessica is making great strides...

Author: By Eric A. Kester | Title: Season’s Greetings! | 12/18/2006 | See Source »

Come for the polygamist, stay for the thespians! The story of a Salt Lake City, Utah, man (Bill Paxton) and his multiple wives was a surprisingly sympathetic treatment of religious fundamentalism and a master-class acting showcase. Ginnifer Goodwin, Chlo Sevigny and Jeanne Tripplehorn portrayed a complicated "sister-wives" dynamic, while Harry Dean Stanton was supporting character of the year as a deliciously snaky cult leader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Best TV Shows | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...jaded, neurotic, or dysfunctional the country gets, 1776 or Beauty and the Beast or whatever will always chirp happily along, preaching a message of nice neat endings and nice harmony. They don’t care about anything. That’s really punk. 5. “Sister Ray” by Velvet Underground. Much as hipsters will hate to admit it: everyone’s kind of tired of irony. But what was great about the Velvets (and Andy Warhol) is that they were so fantastically good at being ironic about irony. Is it meta? Sure...

Author: By The crimson arts staff , CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Celebrity Lists | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...Despite his demeanor, Ahmadinejad was in the midst of a tense week, in which he had welcomed delegates to a conference questioning the Nazi Holocaust, taken on students at Amir Khabir University who chanted "Death to the dictator!" and campaigned for candidates in Iranian municipal elections, including his sister, who's running for Tehran city council. In short, it was a typical week for the United States' most prominent and charismatic irritant not named Kim Jong-il, and we discussed all of the events in 2006 that saw Ahmadinejad become a major player on the world stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ahmadinejad's Ambitions | 12/14/2006 | See Source »

...tattoo,” Chu says. Her father, Wah Chu, made her a promise, she says: if she made the Olympic team in 2002, she could get one, and he would, too. “He upholds his deals,” Chu explains. Her mom, brother, and sister all got inked with matching tattoos—colored Olympic rings surrounding the number 13, Chu’s jersey number. It’s hard to play hockey for a living as a woman, so Chu says she thinks she’ll play in Canada’s semi...

Author: By Emily C. Graff, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Julie W. Chu | 12/13/2006 | See Source »

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