Word: though
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...companies, including Disney, Fox and Sony as well as Warner Bros. Films and Warner Music Group, both owned by Time Warner. After sifting through those, the FTC decided that the three industries often push violent product in places where young people are a large part of the audience. Though the report did not cite films or studios by name, it did find that R-rated films were advertised in high school newspapers, offered to teens through free preview screenings and advertised on programs watched heavily by children, such as "Xena: Warrior Princess," "South Park" and professional wrestling. (Professional wrestling...
...Because our class is so phenomenal on the field, I feel that it's largely going to be our responsibility to take on a leadership role," Yenne said. "Even though we're only sophomores, we have the experience and talent to help this team get to the level we were at last year...
...Ultimately, though, Harvard has its eyes firmly set on its objective for the season--wresting the Ivy League crown from nemesis Princeton and recapturing it for the first time since...
...Lennon's 1968 political proclamation "Revolution." Not the genteel doo-wop version from the White Album? but the full-blooded primal-scream arrangement of the single. In its original (pre-Nike-jingle) incarnation, the song had been a watershed, and defined which side of the barricades one stood on. Though Crow and Kravitz were still in the toddler and pre-embryonic stage respectively in 1968, they had absorbed its relevance, and the searing energy of the performance and the significance of the choice was not lost on the audience, which gave it the first - and biggest - standing ovation...
...Midler was not the only performer who seemed oblivious to the codes of the New Model Democratic Army. Prior to introducing Midler, actor-comedian John Leguizamo unleashed a volley of jokes about Jews and Hispanics "licking Bush" that the audience sensed were causing great discomfort in the front row, though his impression of Bush learning his Spanish by instructing "the help" was on safer ground...