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OK, let's get this out of the way first. Britney Spears appears in this movie: in a pajama top and panties; in a bra and panties; in a towel, stepping out of the shower; and in her underwear again. There is also something of a subplot that involves Britney's character losing her virginity.
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Per curiam Your faithful scribes at He Said realize that mid-February can be a difficult time for everyone. 3Ls are slouching toward graduation; the Groundhog has delivered his fateful prognostication; and Ocean's Eleven inexplicably failed to pick up a Best Picture nomination.
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Saturday was supposed to be a fun, chick-day with a girlfriend -- a 2:00 p.m. performance of "The Vagina Monologues" at the Agassiz Theatre preceded by a yummy brunch. We didn't know that the brunch would prove more gender challenging than the show. I picked up my friend, Nilu, at 12:30 p.
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It was fashion week in New York last week -- wait, before you turn the page -- and the reason that's important is that last season's fashion week was interrupted by the terrorist attacks of September 11. Respectfully, the majority of the runway show reviews this season all managed to mention September 11.
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David Reddaway, 48 years old, has been in the diplomatic service for 27 years. He speaks fluent Farsi -- Iran's main language -- and has a wife of Iranian descent. He first served in Tehran during the turbulent years of 1977 to 1980 and was later at the forefront of U.
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With the Olympics in Salt Lake City, all attention has been turned to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- the Mormons. So what are most media outlets saying about members of this church? They're weird. They like wholesome things, they marry young, they have lots of kids, and their membership is growing fast.
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"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country.... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.
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"Put it in your eye." A security guard at a popular SF rave club is pointing to eye drops she has taken from my pocket. I ask her why. She says that club-goers try to use eye drop bottles to conceal GHB, a drug whose effect has been characterized as everything from alcohol-like to "a mix between alcohol and Ecstasy but with more control than you have on either.
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It is conventional wisdom everywhere that Nader cost Gore the 2000 presidential election. The book review of Nader's "Crashing the Party" in the RECORD by Prof. Koenig makes the same assumption -- as do all pundits and much of the public. After all, look at Florida's close vote.
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While I admire the earnest humanism underlying Faisal Chaudhry's exhortation to remember the thousands of Afghan civilians killed in the ongoing war, I strongly disagree with his description of U.S. efforts as "imperial depravity," "military terror," and "crimes.
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Some Americans wonder why so much ink and U.S. government time is spent on Israel. Their sentiments echo the remarks the French ambassador to the U.K. reportedly made at a London Party: "Why should the world be in danger of World War III because of those people" and their "shitty little country Israel?" While the question's wording suffers from a characteristic European attitude towards Israel, it raises a good point that I would like to address from a slightly different angle.
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When first-year student Michelle Simpson discovered that a classmate had posted a course outline containing an abbreviated form of the N-word on a website used by Harvard Law students, she was not surprised. Growing up in Nashville, Tenn., Simpson said that she has seen racism before and would see it again.