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...exception is UPN's The Mullets (Tuesdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), a tastily tasteless sitcom about Dwayne and Denny Mullet, whose last name--and pretty much their entire character development--comes from their "business in the front, party in the back" haircuts. The season's least likely Peabody Award candidate, it's a good-natured celebration of American cheese--wrestling, Pabst Blue Ribbon, Girls Gone Wild videos--that pits Dwayne and Denny against their stepdad, a self-important, wealthy game-show host (John O'Hurley, who was the self-important, wealthy J. Peterman on Seinfeld). Co-creator Josh Weinstein says...
...whether it wasn't all "a London conspiracy," as one put it. What did Ackermann and cohorts do that was so wrong? As part of the takeover, the Mannesmann board approved about €60 million in bonuses and severance payments for Mannesmann officials, including a €15 million "appreciation award" for chief executive Klaus Esser. German corporate law allows such payouts only if the amounts are "appropriate" - without giving a precise definition of what that means. State prosecutors allege that these payments were far larger than legally warranted, and that Ackermann and other defendants may have given the board erroneous...
...after all, Dante’s last year. He is Harvard’s captain, has a good chance to become the first player in Ivy League history to be a first-team all-conference pick for four straight seasons, and is on the watch list for the Buchanan Award as the nation’s top defensive player...
...first time replaces his on-the-fly loops and effects pedals with a full backing band on this tour. Expect an energetic audience, as Boston is Day’s second home and a major fanbase — the packaging of his Boston Music Award-winning debut album Australia even features a photo of his pre-major label days performing outside Harvard Square’s Gap. Jump Little Children and Charlotte Martin split the opening bill. Stop drops October 7. 7 p.m. $18.75 advance, all ages. Avalon, Landsdowne...
With a Pulitzer Prize, international sex appeal and a national tour to pump her new novel, Jhumpa Lahiri has gotten used to seeing her name in the limelight. Her award-winning debut short story collection, Interpreter of Maladies, catapulted this one-time Cambridge resident into literary stardom, and not surprisingly, generated no small amount of buzz among a First Parish Church crowd last week...