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...Other letters range from gripes about Jar Jar Binks to complaints about commercialization. A pediatrician recently wrote an open letter on Salon.com taking issue with Lucas's newest fast food tie-ins, an Indy Whopper and a Snickers Adventure bar with coconut and chai. "Wouldn't Indy, now a senior citizen, have more than just a little bump in his cholesterol if he had scarfed down his namesake burger?" the doctor asks. "How could he be fit enough to chase down ancient relics while dodging boulders and outwitting Nazis...
...laws about campaign-spending limits or the mathematics of Democratic Party superdelegates, all of which you handle with ease. We all know about the economist who predicted nine of the past five recessions. But you don't want to miss this one. It's going to be a whopper...
...Witha body mass matched only by his enormouscharisma and raspy, throbbingbaritone, it’s easy to make comparisonsto other notorious biggies, like Fat Joe orBig Pun. But before I commit hip-hopheresy and put Ross in the same ranksas Christopher Wallace, it’s important toacknowledge a whopper of a differencebetween the two. While Ross may havethe size and the fan appeal, he lacks thelyrical ability and thematic diversity ofhis heavy predecessor. Then again, “Trilla”is only Ross’s second album, so hestill has time to grow into the enormous,double...
...TIME:As press secretary from 1992 to 1994, you got to miss the whopper of public relations snafus: the Monica Lewinsky scandal...
Probably the biggest whopper is the film's climax, which has gritty little Wiley taking on august Harvard in a nationally broadcasted debate. In reality, the biggest name Wiley argued against was USC, which isn't bad, but doesn't quite reverberate with the same kind of class and caste issues that a contest with The Crimson does. In reality, I'm also inclined to doubt that the Wiley Wildcats always got to argue in the affirmative for Civil Disobedience and against Segregated Education as they do here. If memory serves, debaters in the past often had to snore their...