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...Tis the season when smiling choruses of admissions officers, tour guides and sundry administrators begin to sing of Harvard's virtues, the foremost of which, recently, is the diversity of its students and graduates. The College, they croon, produces poets and priests, musicians and physicians, athletes and artists. But nowhere is this resplendent diversity so evident as in the difference between two of its most prominent and successful alma libres, Al Gore '69 and Alan L. Keyes...
...bother mocking or pitying the Irish; they do such a good job of it themselves. Frank McCourt beautifully juggled contempt and sympathy in his memoir of growing up poor and wet in Limerick in the '30s and '40s, before squandering the goodwill he had accrued with the taint of 'Tis (it'll be a while before that sour screed is filmed). Parker, who did right by the Irish in The Commitments, has a go at the impossible task of adapting Angela's Ashes and trying to satisfy all those who loved the book so much that McCourt's painful past...
...Tis the season for me to be worrying about what to get my little sister for Christmas, which is always a tricky business, because it has to be good. This year I've settled on some CDs I think she'll like. It's not the most original or unusual idea, but I'm actually very pleased with it, because Christmas, like all gift-giving occasions, is an opportunity for indoctrination. My sister is a young and impressionable 15, and I can't quite resist the temptation to make her into a little version of me--a project toward which...
...millennium is almost here--unless you're watching The Green Mile, in which case the old millennium may drag on a decade or two. This year was bueno for Spanish speakers (All About My Mother, Latin pop), but not so good for the Irish (the malarkey of 'Tis). New technology emerged (MP3), but old shows still charmed (Kiss Me, Kate). When a century passes, we look to artists to celebrate what we've learned as a society. Then again, it's still the year 4697 in China, so the lessons can wait. Herewith our lists of the entertainment events...
...Tis the Season...