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...States!" I said gleefully at a Spanish restaurant, munching on a part of the bull that even his mother is embarrassed to mention. "Why are the waiters laughing at me?" Here in Spain, people sing together at bus stops. At first, I didn't think that was weird. Then, long about the third day, I hit Stage...

Author: By David A. Fahrenthold, | Title: There's No Place Like home | 4/4/2000 | See Source »

...best part. For all those numbers you crunched, for all the research you did, you couldn't pick Seton Hall--the Hall!--to make it to the Sweet 16. (Only a truly crazy college basketball fan would refer to Seton Hall as "The Hall." March Madness makes you do weird things...

Author: By Vasant M. Kamath, | Title: Predict NCAA Basketball? You Must Be Mad | 3/24/2000 | See Source »

Gonzaga: This school is just weird. Out of the national picture for 49 weeks of the year, this small Jesuit college in Spokane, Wash., plays well for three weeks and messes with every expert's tournament prediction. The "Zags" rely on their three-point shooter, Matt Santangelo. Sources tell me the team also gets added inspiration upon learning that I pick them to lose in the first round every year...

Author: By Rahul Rohatgi, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: March Madness For Dummies | 3/23/2000 | See Source »

...glorious. How weird. Let us end the celebration with a chorus of Cole Porter: If Napoleon at Waterloo-la-la Had an army of debutantes To give the British the well known Oo-la-la, He'd have changed the history of France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Bonaparte to Pick With You | 3/22/2000 | See Source »

Making audiences feel weird merely for laughing is a sign of something quite wrong, or quite right; here it's mostly the latter. Titus is based on Titus' one-man show Norman Rockwell Is Bleeding, and like many stand-ups turned TV stars, he's a limited actor. But the buff, brush-cut Titus has more to offer than affable my-wife-won't-have-sex-with-me jokes; his every sarcasm and tic betrays an intense, coiled anger. The pilot--in which he and his brother confront their father's possible suicide (Dad's been in his room four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: A Titus Fit | 3/20/2000 | See Source »

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