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...reason I was sitting slack-jawed and wide-eyed was because I had just witnessed yet another episode of “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” a show that defies any preconceived notion I once had about what makes enjoyable television.For those unfamiliar with the ABC Family phenomenon, here’s a short summary: high school freshman Amy Juergens becomes pregnant after a band camp fling with playboy drummer Ricky Underwood and has to deal with embarrassment at school, problems with friends and family, and a relationship with her new boyfriend Ben Boykewich...
...Zachary Levi) is a salesman in the Nerd Herd of a big-box electronics store. One day he gets an e-mail that implants his brain with the U.S. government's classified data bank. Overnight, he becomes a conscripted secret agent and a marked man. (Remember, people: Never open unfamiliar attachments...
After the first day of play at the season-opening Dartmouth Invitational, the Harvard women’s golf team found itself in the unfamiliar and unpleasant position of third place. However, a strong Sunday allowed the Crimson to take victory in the tournament for the third year in a row. In the end, it was comfortable for Harvard (314-302-616), as the team led the second round by 15 strokes, easily moving ahead of Ancient Eight rivals Dartmouth and Brown. The Crimson went into Hanover as the favorites in the 17-team field. Coming off of its first...
When television's fictional Simpson family visited Brazil a few years ago, their customarily extravagant adventures caused consternation. In addition to encountering hordes of street children, oversexed infants and monkeys rampaging around Rio de Janeiro, Homer was kidnapped and Bart was eaten by a snake. Unfamiliar with the concept of satire, Brazilians went nuts. The Foreign Ministry wrote a letter to the show's network, Fox; tourism officials threatened to sue; and Cariocas (as Rio residents are known) protested that Americans knew nothing about what they call the Marvelous City...
...this is probably quite canny. There are two ways to think about change in this election, because neither candidate is asking to be re-elected. In one sense - the one the Republicans are sure to focus on at their convention in St. Paul next week - America is weighing the unfamiliar, unquantifiable change that is Obama. Electing a meteroic black man instead of a seasoned white man could have big consequences or few consequences; either way, no one knows because it has never been done. Obama prefers to focus on a more familiar kind of change, the cyclical dumping of incumbents...