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...Unfortunately, that is also true for every American state and city as well as for governments around the world. No investigative commission can undo 9/11, but we have a chance to thwart other attacks. That's where the world's time, money and manpower should be directed. I wish the U.S. would lead that effort and not use valuable resources to second-guess what happened leading up to 9/11. Ronald Erickson Downers Grove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters | 4/26/2004 | See Source »

Before the soundtrack could loop “Jesse’s Girl” and “Burning Down the House,” Jenna’s wish comes true. Jenna Rink, now played by the fabulously lithe, Alias star Jennifer Garner, wakes up in possession of a Fifth Avenue apartment, a hunky hockey playing bed buddy who calls her “sweet bottom,” and a drawer full of B-cup bras that she can fill out without the help of a wad of quilted Charmin two-ply. This Jenna shops at Henri...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: 13 Going on 30 | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...seeming to compensate for the severe character flaws that accompanied her wish, the 13 year-old in the traffic-stopping body is able to be at once quirkily fashionable, charmingly friendly and endearingly naïve. She covers her eyes during her boyfriend’s Vanilla Ice strip tease and scrunches her nose while blurting her signature catch phrase, “Oh, gross.” She cries about the near failure of her magazine to her parents and, more importantly to her old chum Matt (Mark Ruffalo), the friend who conveniently inhabits a Greenwich Village apartment around...

Author: By Lisa M. Puskarcik, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Film Review: 13 Going on 30 | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...seems to know who's in it, besides Steve, and how many there are, but it's for sure that the quality's fallen off over the years. Miller's got a good, mild blues voice, and I imagine he's maintained a following, but I sure wish I could've seem him five years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

...democracy, there ought to be no real use for polls. After all, if you are entitled to your opinion, what does it matter if 67 percent of poll respondents (read: the General Public) disagree with you? And if you’re free to vote for whomever you wish, does it matter whether Kerry or Bush is ahead in the polls...

Author: By Christopher W. Snyder, WRIT SMALL | Title: The Tyranny of the Poll | 4/23/2004 | See Source »

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