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...Ebert on The King of Comedy: Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy is one of the most arid, painful, wounded movies I've ever seen. It's hard to believe Scorsese made it; instead of the big-city life, the violence and sexuality of his movies like Taxi Driver and Mean Streets, what we have here is an agonizing portrait of lonely, angry people with their emotions all tightly bottled up. This is a movie that seems ready to explode - but somehow it never does...
...misconduct scandal was hardly Kilpatrick's first brush with controversy. At 31, he was the youngest mayor in Detroit's history - alternately dubbed "King Kwame" and the nation's first "hip-hop mayor" - and seemed to embody the glamorous lifestyle of a paparazzi-starved star. He celebrated his inauguration in 2002 with "club crawls" of Detroit's most exclusive bars, later claiming the events were intended to motivate the city's disaffected youth. That he insisted on a 21-person security team drew ridicule from local residents and politicians, who were quick to note that even the mayor of Chicago...
Stone recorded four saves, while Princeton goaltender Jennifer King stopped the only shot she faced...
...Schreyer received the ball inside of the circle and fired a shot past Crimson goaltender Kylie Stone for her seventh goal of the season. At halftime, Princeton held a commanding advantage in shots, 9-2, and in penalty corners, 6-0. Stone recorded four saves, while Princeton goaltender Jennifer King stopped the only shot she faced. The second half proved to be no easier than the first for Harvard, as the Tigers quickly extended their lead and put the game out of reach. In the first five minutes of the period, Sharkey matched Schreyer by tallying two goals. Sharkey?...
...margins. That's bitter news for some: to cut costs, Hershey's recently replaced cocoa butter with vegetable oil in several products, which is why the labels on Mr. Goodbar, Milk Duds and Krackel now have to say things like "chocolatey" instead of "milk chocolate." But even as the king of American candy cheapens its low-end stuff, Hershey's--which saw its quarterly profit double recently--is diving into choco-luxe. Cran-blueberry almond, anyone...