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...above all, the Emmys are about entertaining us. Forget all the hogwash about their being "a celebration of the TV business" - once an awards show occupies three-plus hours of national television, with paid advertisements, its sole duty is to amuse and never bore us. (This is why I've never felt sorry for any actor or actress who goes over the acceptance-speech limit and gets played off stage: if they want to give long, self-indulgent, weepy speeches, they can give the awards at a private, untelevised ceremony at a nice restaurant in L.A. and talk as long...
...Tigers' sole nod to their lameness was hiring Mike Veeck, the son of Bill Veeck, the Hall of Fame owner who organized the disco-album bonfire at Comiskey Park in the '70s, to do their promotions. So they did have Duct Tape Night, Magic Night with illusionist Aaron Radatz, a Christian concert after an Angels game and Baseball Card Blitz, where kids under 15 got to trample one another on a field littered with 50,000 packs of baseball cards. But Veeck didn't go far enough. First of all, he should have removed the Tigers from those baseball-card...
Junior J.J. Kang led Crimson scorers with rounds of 73 and 82, good enough for a top-10 finish, while sole senior Chiampa finished with identical first- and second-round scores of 79. Junior Carrie Baizer (81-84) and sophomores Jennifer Cronan (85-82) and Caitlin Hicks (87-84) rounded out Harvard’s scoring...
...Australia forcibly imprisons all its refugees in isolated, desert camps until they gain permission to remain or a ticket to another country?processes that can take years. It's the only nation in the world to do so. Refugees, without committing an offence, are the sole group in Australia who can be imprisoned indefinitely by order of Parliament?and no courts may order their release. These policies, widely condemned by the international community, are the target of From Nothing to Zero?a grim compilation of letters written in captivity, plaintive testaments and fierce counterblasts of a wretched Untermensch that came...
...federal court judge disagreed in a June ruling, saying that “Ms. Hornstine earned her distinction as the top student in her class in spite of, not because of, her disability.” As a result, Hornstine was named the sole valedictorian at a June graduation she declined to attend...