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...They followed their "Larger Than Life" opening with other Millennium debut material, each song displaying a harder and edgier sound than their older hits. Likewise, the choreographed dancing and effects were red-hot. The entire scene was mass hysteria--an electric visual thrill that ignited even the most bitter skeptic. Whoever thought the Backstreet Boys could be passionate...
Although I take 250 mg of vitamin C each day, I'm pretty much a skeptic when it comes to dietary supplements. Most of the ones I've seen are basically patent medicines whose proponents, seizing on a few isolated facts about the body, tout a treatment plan that has more to do with magic than medicine. But occasionally a supplement like SAMe (pronounced sam-me) comes along that piques even my interest. It's supposed to combat depression, ease aching joints and possibly revitalize the liver. I'm not convinced these claims are true, but I think they...
Call me a skeptic, but I have serious doubts about whether Maynard actually had an affair with Salinger in the first place. Hermetic, paranoid authors all tend to look alike--they're all sort of blurred, at least in the photographs. Maybe she had an affair with Thomas Pynchon, thinking he was Salinger. And how do we know for sure that Salinger actually wrote the letters? Obviously this is pure speculation, but perhaps Patsy Ramsey wrote them. I've heard that handwriting experts who viewed the letters at Sotheby's can't completely rule out that possibility...
...Class of 1949's 25th anniversary report, MacNeil characterized himself as a skeptic rather than a cynic. He recently says that this philosophy affects his perception of Harvard...
...skeptic about Harvard, I guess. I love the place, of course, but I can find a lot wrong with it," MacNeil says...