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...President [George W.] Bush. I mean, go talk to Bush about my attitude on illegal immigration. The thing about Bush that kept his people unified for the most part was the war, and what the Democrats were savaging him with, and trying to secure defeat, wrap it around his throat. That served to unify people who had disagreements with Bush on other things. Plus, Bush is a likable guy. Now we're still going to have a war and we're still going to have terrorist threats and so forth. But this is what I fear. I have looked...
...characters to open themselves up and become vulnerable, but by the end, everyone is still more shut than is expected.Still, Beane’s play ultimately accomplishes a great deal: four memorable, often riotously funny characters are crafted out of a series of delicate interactions, satirizing the absurd, cut-throat world of Hollywood. Most remarkably, the play creates an accurate, realistic relationship between Alex and Mitchell for the majority of the play’s duration, presenting it exactly as it is and nothing more.“The Little Dog Laughed” serves up the human?...
Zhou Shuguang's brief but spectacular career as China's first roving citizen reporter on the Internet ended abruptly last December after he was punched in the throat by an angry policeman in the northeastern city of Shenyang. Zhou's offense: investigating a bizarre pyramid scheme involving ants and aphrodisiacs. The assault took place during a short stint in jail, after which plainclothes cops escorted Zhou to the airport and put him on a plane home, with dire warnings about what would happen to him if he returned. The small, bespectacled 26-year-old took heed. "I will keep silent...
...best days, Amy Winehouse is a mess. The 24-year-old wears her hair in a beehive so large and teetering that it could hide the chorus of middle-aged black women that seems to materialize at the back of her throat whenever she sings. Having once thought herself overweight, Winehouse now keeps her body little-girl tiny and covered with enough tattoos to earn her cred at a medium-security prison. Onstage, she's known to favor poodle skirts. It's an aesthetic that takes some getting used...
...named impostors, Massachusetts Hall was teaching them—and us—a lesson in the power of glamour.On Dec. 10, President Drew G. Faust announced that Harvard would soon be marginally less than totally unaffordable for families that are marginally less than totally loaded. It was the throat clearing heard ’round the world. The Times pounced on the story, as did just about everyone else. Next year hundreds, if not thousands, of Harvard students will benefit, as will their peers at a handful of other High Society schools. But anyone with the misfortune...