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...Stewart host. In fact, let Jon Stewart host every awards show. For anything. Ever. After a painfully dull monologue by Garry Shandling - who spent the entire time rocking wildly back and forth, as if he couldn't wait to dash off stage - Stewart killed with a you-can't-make-this-up highlight reel of TV news sensationalism over the war on terror (capped off with NBC News' Chris Jansing seriously asking an expert, "What can you tell us about Hispanic Muslims?"). "For too long," Stewart said, "the TV news industry has sacrificed its integrity for cheap entertainment value...
...ballot this year. Whereas last year student organizations bemoaned the lack of interest of a seemingly apathetic Class of 2006, our new first-years have made a break from this descent into idleness. As the deadline for declaring Council candidacy passed on Wednesday, 96 first-years came forth as council hopefuls. A colossal 180 candidates, the highest number in the council’s 21-year history—more than doubled last year’s paltry 91. And as entryway lobbies and House bulletin boards are covered in letter-sized campaign posters, a few theories have surfaced...
...also chaired Harvard Management Company, which oversees the University’s endowment, and the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility, which sets forth an ethical code for Harvard’s investments...
...Eisner: Fagin started a number of years ago when I was looking through the European mythologies, faerie tales and so forth, and it struck me that there was a thread of stereotype in all of those. And I believe strongly that there's nothing wrong with stereotype. Stereotype has been made a bad word. But it's not a bad [thing] unless it's used badly -- for evil purposes. But [sometimes] it's the only way you can communicate, visually. At any rate, one of the books I turned my hand onto was "Oliver Twist." In reading it again...
...importance now than when I was working [on "The Spirit."] Anything that would interrupt the story, such as highly complex artwork, is no longer useful. You'll find that in the case superheroes and adventure stories, the artwork tends to be very tight and complex, heavily detailed and so forth. I'm dealing in impressionism. So my work today, if you want to put a name to it, would be impressionistic...