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Jack Black is not a particularly funny man. He can pull off a one-liner, and he brightly sustains the Chris Farley torch of manic physical clowning, but it’s clear that his comedic range is inversely related to his girth. Fortunately, the producers of School of Rock have forged an ideal vehicle for Black’s brand of mischief, and with a sturdy cast and script behind him, he manages to whip up some of the biggest laughs of the year. Black plays Dewey Finn, a guitarist thrown out of his band, rendering him even less...
...closet has been cleared of all but the essentials. “Now look at all the space you have. Now we can go into the drawers!” exults Neill. She tells them to pull out non-seasonal tops, leaving only clothes that work for fall and winter. “Eliminate for me things that are too summery or that you haven’t worn in a long time...
...offensive line as a unit is real close,” Bechdol said. “We’ll do [the traditional Thursday] dinners together. The injuries pull us closer. Our last dinner we went to dinner at The Wrap and then went to eat at UHS with Mike Frey...
...election approaches, the White House will especially want to avoid getting into more trouble in Iraq and projecting images of confusion and faulty leadership in foreign policy. It is premature now to predict that in order to head off these dangers it will choose pulling back over pressing ahead—we could get our act together, and things could start to break our way. But the aggregation of incentives to pull back enumerated above is already formidable. A decision to back off—whether intentional or by default, whether by declaring victory or by palming...
...suffer from the symptoms of tobacco cravings." Quick Test 5, the company that makes NICOWater, initially marketed it as a dietary supplement but came under fire from antitobacco organizations. The product is now sold as a homeopathic drug. A coalition of public-health groups has petitioned the FDA to pull the product from the market. The FDA says, "No action has yet been taken...