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Workplace comedies like the office, it's sometimes said, are really family comedies--only about families of people with almost nothing in common, thrown together by circumstance. Thing is, that often describes actual families as well. So it's only fitting that the funniest new family comedy of the year, ABC's Modern Family (Wednesdays, 9 p.m. E.T.), is shot in the same mockumentary style as The Office, with a similar mix of hilarity and heart...
...Brown wide out as time expired. With the final whistle, the Crimson (1-1, 1-0 Ivy) took home its Ivy League opener, 24-21, in front of 17,263 fans on Friday night under the lights at Harvard Stadium. “It was a good thrown ball, [and] I thought I was in good position,” said Sewall, who finished with 116 all-purpose yards and three TDs. “[I] went up for it, and there was a swarm of crimson there.” Brown’s decision to pass...
...weeks ago, Gaddafi submitted a proposal to the U.N. to abolish Switzerland and divide it up along linguistic lines, giving parts of the country to Germany, France and Italy. Although the motion was thrown out because it violates the U.N. Charter, which states that no member country can threaten the existence of another, some Swiss leaders are still concerned that Libya could use its yearlong presidency of the U.N. General Assembly, which began on Sept. 15, to keep up Gaddafi's vitriolic attacks on their country. (See the top 10 U.N. General Assembly moments...
...Rock dropped by with a housewarming gift of a Gothic D (for the mantel) plus a keg of his Badass Beer - and others will stay there while reporting. The house will be a gathering place and a clearinghouse; we've already had Mayor Dave Bing over for dinner and thrown a lawn party to greet our new neighbors...
...anyone would want to live in (and, thanks to the crash of the auto business, available at prices most Americans haven't seen in decades). At the General Motors Technical Center, in the industrial suburb Warren, the parking lots were mostly empty - an awful lot of engineers have been thrown out of work - but the survivors showed me some pretty impressive technology. I liked the cars that "talked" to other cars, making accidents all but impossible, and I was especially impressed by a prototype Chevy fueled entirely by hydrogen. Hydrogen! (See pictures of Detroit's beautiful, horrible decline...