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...there to complexify our sympathies with key characters, this film is too funny, creating a dramatic space in which characters are impossible to judge. When the film’s most loathsome characters are simultainiously its most engaging characters, the viewer’s interpretation of the film is split between what the diegesis is attempting to explicitly say and the way these characters actually show on screen...
...place Monday at the Middle East. Playing on the small but comfortable upstairs stage, the quintet played for a respectable number, many of them friends from Harvard. The band played seven songs, all of them fast and energetic. Choi played electric violin to good effect. Porter and Choi chiefly split vocal duties, with Klein singing backup...
...power into the hands of ever-influential media moguls. Moreover, the current FCC has pursued a thoroughly flawed campaign against violators of media regulations. The commission recently issued CBS News the largest fine it has ever issued—for the less-than-horrifying sin of broadcasting a split-seond shot of one of Janet Jackson’s nipples last year. But, despite the commission’s problematic record, we must give credit where credit is due. And, it seems the FCC has finally stumbled upon the right course—if only briefly—now that...
At least there's no debating this: with roughly two weeks to go until the election, the presidential race is again locked in a virtual dead heat, according to a new TIME survey of likely voters. The narrow split-- President George W. Bush leads Senator John Kerry by a statistically insignificant margin of 2 points, 48% to 46%, with Ralph Nader pulling in a solid 3%--can be seen across almost every measure in the survey...
...campaign: nearly 1 in 3 voters said the debates made them likelier to vote for Kerry, compared with roughly 1 in 6 for the President. Perhaps more worrisome for Bush is that his job-approval rating has remained below 50% for a second week. Here again, the poll is split down the middle: 49% of voters approve of the President's performance on the job, and 49% disapprove...