Word: slating
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...Creepiest thing I've seen all week: someone in a Lisa Simpson costume shaking her booty to Barenaked Ladies' Pinch Me, just a little too sexily for a 10-year-old, while inviting the weary suits on the aircraft carrier. (This morning UPN spent two hours unveiling a new slate mostly of former WB shows and the Star Trek prequel Enterprise, for which the network had no clips.) Fox--No. 1 in 18 to 34s!--has the most unusual lineup, including 24, a thriller whose events unfold in one day, in real-time episodes, over the season; Pasadena, a spooky...
...convoluted New York imbroglio this month in which Sharpton was reported to have offered to endorse Bronx borough president Fernando Ferrer--a Puerto Rican who's trying to win the Democratic mayoral nomination by building a coalition of Latino and black voters--if and only if Ferrer backed a slate of black candidates Sharpton favored. The New York Times reporter who wrote the story, Sharpton says, left out the fact that his list of candidates included a "progressive" white. "I've grown too much to fall into the trap of seeming to be for some black-only thing," he says...
...boys. In their meetings last week, the conference athletic directors voted to expand its men’s hockey season to 34 games for non-Ivy League teams, and as a bonus to Harvard, decreed that the Crimson will not have to play a full two-game slate the weekend before the Beanpot...
...open to the possibility that, someday, they just might persuade me. But they will never win me over so long as they keep trying to steal the moral high ground by scaring people with the myth of the heartless conservative. So let’s wipe the slate clean and start over with a commitment to be honest about each other’s motives...
...Chair Todd E. Plants `01 said he expects the PSLM to submit a "slate of candidates," but that "the campus will be better served by different perspectives...