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...military - fairly or unfairly - had many officers, especially in the Army, setting their bayonets into place by the middle of 2001. It was only the al-Qaeda attacks that saved Rumsfeld's job later that year, many Pentagon insiders believe. Overnight, he achieved pop-culture status, his stern countenance and parrying of press questions bringing him a peculiar kind of Washington fame in those scary weeks following 9/11. Yet it was the pair of wars launched in the wake of those terror strikes that, over time, highlighted on a far bigger stage his short-sighted and subordinate-ruffling demeanor...
...decades thereafter, I was unconditionally with Spector and Irving Berlin, on the "Merry Christmas" side of the debate - until the last few years, when some evangelicals and their media handmaidens made a big hairy deal about the meaning of Christmas. Like the stern secularists, they got it wrong too, insisting that Christmas was primarily a religious feast. Earlier, I was being a tad facetious about Halloween, but the professional Christians are dead serious. They want "Merry Christmas" to mean "Join with me in honoring the one true Redeemer...
...course, I could not resist picking up the latest Michael Connelly novel, “Echo Park,” released two weeks ago. I see two things: the name “Harry Bosch,” Los Angeles police detective, inside the jacket, and the properly stern face of Connelly on the back. Looks like a must-read...
...study by the American Society for Microbiology found that while 91 percent of American adults claim they scrub their hands post-loo, researchers in four cities discovered that a mere 83 percent actually washed. So quit worrying about your toilet and take a tip from gross-out king Howard Stern. Even he, a man who farts into his microphone, refuses to shake hands...
...shirk from conflict in its portrayal of suburban life. Running until Oct. 28, “Bette and Boo” was written by Christopher F. Durang ’71. Produced by Aileen K. Robinson ’08, the play is directed by Visiting Director Marcus Stern, who staged the play several years earlier at the American Repetory Theatre. “Bette and Boo” presents the story of a young couple in the 1950s and follows the breakdown of their idyllic marriage, as told by their adult son. In doing so, Durang comprehensively addresses...