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...taken this conformity for granted until the girls asked their pair of questions on Saturday night. Then it struck me that, for a college that prides itself on its diversity, we look an awful lot like one another. Is it sloth that induces us to pull on our jeans and sweaters? Or is it something more menacing—peer pressure to conform? No, the kids at my high school sporting black, safety-pin-perforated clothing hadn’t been very clean, but they always had something interesting to say about civil liberties. In high schools like mine, clothing...
...grew up sort of godless and in the counterculture, so I don’t tend to feel that bad about things like sloth, gluttony or lust. But pride is evil in my book and I struggle with...
...official languages, was once the exclusive hunting ground of the maharajas of Mysore. That status helped to preserve the area's diverse animal and bird life. One government survey recorded 16 species of snails and 70 species of spiders that call Nagarahole home. Bigger creatures abound, including antelope, sloth bears, civets, spotted deer, elephants, wild dogs, tigers, panthers, bison, pangolins and boars. There are hundreds of kinds of birds and dozens of reptile species as well...
...plays football--not the kind of guy you would expect to find watching cartoons on a Saturday afternoon. Yet on the weekend of March 15, Pond went to see Ice Age, a $60 million animated comedy in which a deadpan woolly mammoth (Ray Romano), a goofy sloth (John Leguizamo) and a duplicitous tiger (Denis Leary) go on an odyssey to reunite a human baby with its father. "The whole movie was a trip to me," says Pond, who especially liked the part where the sloth's tongue gets stuck to the ice. "It was real funny...
...They came, they thawed, they conquered!" Could there be a snazzier ad line for a computer-animated feature about three prehistoric buddies? This freezin' threesome--a woolly mammoth (voiced by Ray Romano), a saber-toothed tiger (Denis Leary) and a sloth (John Leguizamo)--survives plot challenges of no particular ingenuity. The film breaks anthropological ground by revealing that humans lived in the Ice Age, but its contribution to cartoon history is more modest. It yearns for Pixar-style wit without quite earning...