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...President Bush's Healthy Marriage Initiative. The Administration sees marriage education as a tonic for poverty and other societal problems, particularly when children are involved. In the welfare reauthorization bill now pending in the Senate, the White House has asked Congress to spend $1.5 billion on such programs--a bold request in a time of huge budget deficits, a fervid national debate over the very meaning of marriage and uncertainty over the effectiveness of marriage-education policies...
...whenever a play is to be staged in her honor. Only toward the end, when Peter Pan is staged in her home, does the movie alchemize from the subpar into the nearly sublime by asserting that theatrical art, at its best, is a sweet affirmation of life and a bold defiance of death...
...have traditionally found their base with the indie community, Ned Oldham seems to make conscious efforts to depart from his brother’s footsteps. If there’s one thing hipsters hate, it’s jam-rock, and while I wouldn’t be so bold as to classify this record so damningly, it’s safe to say that this album would find a friend in a mourning Phish-head much more easily than someone who’s into, say, the Dismemberment Plan. The songs are long, and the songs are slow. Guitar...
...actors’ bold effervescence, both in song and in action, carries the show, infusing it with provocative verbal and kinesthetic inflection. Anonymous character JC Cassis ’06 blurts out “I voted for John Kerry” during one number. Lane D. Levine ’06 takes on the musical’s burlesque motif, drawing circles in the air with his well-toned glutes as boy-toy Arthur in “Arthur in the Afternoon...
...Good Morning America. Then there was his recent quip to an industry trade publication that "most of the viewers of [CBS] are in nursing homes." At last spring's network up-front presentation, where advertisers decide how to spend their billions on the upcoming fall schedule, Zucker made the bold claim that despite the retirement of such stalwarts as Friends and Frasier, "[NBC's] Thursday nights are going to be even stronger...