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...there's one thing more unsettling than a bunch of contestants dragging cameras to skid row as they vie for a book deal and TV pilot, it's seeing their responses critiqued as if they were singing a Christina Aguilera song ("You call that a speech?"). Messengers, to be fair, is self-conscious about that: in one scene, a homeless woman lectures TLC's cameras, "This ain't no damn zoo. These are human beings." She's right. This is possibly the best-intentioned--and creepiest--TV show you will see this year...
...coach of the U.S. Women’s National Under-22 Select Team. Stone will lead the country’s top players under the age of 22 through the Women’s National Festival in August, and from those hopefuls will select a roster of 20 to vie in a three-game series against the Canadian U-22 team in Ottawa between August 23 and 27. The U-22 squad will likely be a collegiate all-star team, comprising the nation’s top young talents with whom Stone has acquainted herself while manning the bench...
...live extends through every aspect of undergraduate life. There are no big men on campus, only a host of little big men. The quest for fame reaches an early, flickering peak when 50 freshmen of whom no one but a few old-school friends have ever heard vie for the votes of an apathetic class to make the Union or Jubilee committees. An astonishingly large percentage of each class cannot tell you who the current football captain is, and at least an equally large percentage do not know the difference between a Junior Fellow and a University Professor...
...player, dvr, games console and stereo system. The differences between a TV and a computer, and between a website and a TV channel, will then start evaporating like pixels on a dying screen. Viewers will choose whether to watch ads and which way to watch them. How will brands vie for consumers' attention? For a taste of the future, tap the words Axe Feather into an Internet search engine. Any number of the results will take you to a page featuring an attractive young woman, clad in skimpy red undergarments, lying on a bed. Move the virtual feather with your...
...since acknowledged her mistake—“There are some things you wish you could take back”—but she hardly allows her past to limit her future. “I have regrets about things I did, vise-a-vie the Vietnam War, but you know, basically, I’ve resolved most of the regrets, and I’m trying live my third act in such a way that I won’t have regrets,” she says...