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Originally slated for release last November, Phone Booth was postponed until this weekend out of respect for the sniper crisis in Maryland and Virginia. Perhaps they should have canceled its release altogether. Phone Booth does raise some interesting million dollar questions (the power of technology, the conflicted nature of man, etc.) but overall, the movie isn’t worth the thirty-five cents needed to make a pay phone call. —Kristi L. Jobson
...most intimidating high school magnet of them all,” writes Mathews, is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia, which he describes as a place where “students pile on AP courses like extra blankets in winter...
...evening gown. I’m sure there are plenty of beauty queens who just adore perusing bridal shops and formalwear stores. I’m not one of them. Shopping for a dress was pure hell. If there’s a gown in the Maryland-Virginia-Delaware area, you can bet my poor body got zipped into it. Yellow washed me out. Orange clashed with my hair color. Red makes you look fat onstage. Black is too grown up. Blue, too conventional, green too free-thinking. White? Out of the question. That left pink...
...watched as one of the battleships, perhaps the Arizona, went up in flames, soon blackened by huge funnels of clouds shooting skyward. The West Virginia and the California started to explode in a chain reaction. I soon heard the rat-tat-tat of machine guns and squads of planes starting to dive-bomb the destroyers and cruisers nearest shore. I saw a large plane fly low over the water from the direction of Honolulu into battleship row and drop a torpedo toward the middle of the ships. The plane then turned toward Aiea, my hometown, hugging the surface...
...about 10 o'clock on the night the Supreme Court handed down the 5-4 decision that put him in the White House, George W. Bush was already in bed, keeping his usual early hours. In Virginia, his top political adviser, Karl Rove, was also in pajamas, monitoring the cable news channels. Hearing the news on one station, he raced to phone the Governor's mansion. "It's over," Rove said. "Congratulations, Mr. President." Bush turned on his TV. After 35 days of court reversals, hanging chads and false endings, the Texas Governor wasn't ready to start receiving salutes...