Word: temperance
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...sketch, from the hand of an eight-year-old with a penchant for nasty temper tantrums, was drawn only days after a six-year-old in Michigan fatally shot a classmate, so school officials decided to be on the safe side. They brought the drawing to the attention of Gary Underwood, chief of police for the city's public schools, who ran the child's case through the department's new computer "threat-assessment" program, called Mosaic-2000. With a battery of 42 questions--Is the student harassed by peers? Has the student recently experienced rejection?--Mosaic purports to calculate...
...song, "Oops... I Did It Again" was one of the greatest things I've heard in my life, a co-editor snapped, "You just like bad music." And though I didn't react at the time, the more I think about it, the more I start to lose my temper. Who's to say that "Oops... I Did It Again" isn't the epitome of art, the highest form of musical achievement? The truth is, musical taste is so ridiculously subjective that we can't control it. Just witness the countless boys and mothers who hide behind big sunglasses...
...mentioned Gerald Ford, who'd beaten him in the primaries (Jimmy Carter became President), McCain now has reason to slight the guy who wants to rub in who lost on the front page of the New York Times. In the past Bush's supporters made much of McCain's temper. Yet they must be concerned that Bush seems more irritated in victory than McCain does in defeat...
...supporters passed out a song sheet with words written to the tune of the Elvis hit Are You Lonesome Tonight? The lyrics were a broadside aimed at Arizona's Republican Governor Jane Hull, who had not only backed Bush but also publicly embarrassed McCain by pointing to his famous temper. "Are you lonely tonight as you're losing this fight?" sang the chorus. McCain barely joined in, fearing he might appear to be gloating. "Are your eyes teary blue?/ Darling Gov, is it true?/ Tell me, Jane/ Are you lonely tonight...
...Actress nominees are serviceable--but uselessly nominating Meryl Streep for Music of the Heart instead of Reese Witherspoon for Election is a cop-out. If Tom Cruise wins Best Supporting Actor for Magnolia, I'll turn to religion. And I pray that I'll be able to contain my temper when 'NSync takes the stage to perform their Best Original Song nominee, "Music of My Heart"--they'll perform instead of Madonna, whose "Beautiful Stranger" managed to miss the final cut. The good news? We'll also see "Blame Canada," performed on stage since the South Park tune somehow made...