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...opponent is a decent person, a great wit and a superb debater,” said Toomey, who wore a plain blue, collared shirt. “Yet he has one serious flaw. He represents a Republican Party that both nationally and statewide doesn’t understand or represent the needs or ideals of the people...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Affiliate Debates in Local Race | 10/14/2004 | See Source »

...opponent is a decent person, a great wit and a superb debater,” said Toomey, who wore a plain blue, collared shirt. “Yet he has one serious flaw. He represents a Republican Party that both nationally and statewide doesn’t understand or represent the needs or ideals of the people...

Author: By Michael M. Grynbaum, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Affiliate Debates in Local Race | 10/13/2004 | See Source »

...performance but that the performance could be a passage to something true. His picture of an exhausted, tentative Marilyn Monroe is an essential window into the sum of her predicaments. His shot of Charlie Chaplin making devil's-horns at the camera is an object lesson in economical wit. Accusations of communist sympathies were pushing Chaplin away from America; Avedon gives us the funnyman trying on his new role, the bogeyman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RICHARD AVEDON: 1923-2004: The Man Who Spoke Style to Truth | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

That is no longer the case, Carrier said. Today, travelers have hundreds of titles to wade through, from guides that specialize in British wit to books that target mountain bikers...

Author: By Elizabeth W. Green, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let’s Go May Scale Back | 9/29/2004 | See Source »

...this sets up a championship match of passive-aggressiveness between Lan and Blondie, mainland Chinese versus suburban American mother, with a slightly bemused, slightly excited Carnegie in the middle. With his dry engineer's wit?he compares his "va-va-vavoomy" wife to an Aeroflot plane and means it as a compliment?Carnegie is the closest thing this shifting novel has to a protagonist. (Jen divides the narration among her five characters, each offering rejoinders in separate paragraphs. It's a clever effect, even if it sometimes feels like a staged reading of a new play that is still...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Melting Pot Boils Over | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

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