Culture & Entertainment
Implications of NCAA Conference Changes Examined
November 9, 2011 # # # # (0)

Over the past year, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has seen an unprecedented amount of schools changing conferences. These conferences, usually organized by region of the country, involve between eight and sixteen schools and dictate many aspects of intercollegiate

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Homeland: Thrillingly Unpredictable
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“I missed something once before. I won’t, I can’t let that happen again,” Carrie Mathison (Claire Danes), a C.I.A. officer says in the opening credits of Showtime’s new TV show Homeland. In a post 9/11 world, Americans’ awareness of the

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Culture & Entertainment, The News
Fall TV Season Offers Plenty of New Shows
October 5, 2011 # # (1)

This season the television lineup includes reboots, the supernatural, 60′s knockoffs, dead people, medical dramas, police dramas, 20-something-year-olds, dinosaurs, and of course there is The X Factor. Year after year, the somewhat original shows are canceled and the shows that

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Culture & Entertainment
Everything I Need to Know in Life, I Learned in Television
March 1, 2011 # # # (0)

Everything you need to know about Rein Elmore can be encapsulated in three episodes, keeping in mind that they are as similar to one another as they are to many more episodes, of which these three are merely representative:
Episode One:

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Culture & Entertainment
No Ordinary Family Makes Comic Books Look Ordinary
October 5, 2010 # # (1)

ABC’s new TV show “No Ordinary Family” worries me.
Why? I’ll get to that in a second. First, give me a moment to explain what “No Ordinary Family” is for those who don’t know. The show is about an American family

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2L Ponders Expanding his Murtaugh List
August 31, 2010 # # # (0)

Can you believe it? This summer I almost had to add another thing to my Murtaugh List! I know. Crazy, right?

Oh, fine. I’ll tell you what a Murtaugh List is. The concept comes from a How I Met Your

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The Jurist on TV: Big Bang Theory Sends Sci-Fi Nods
March 3, 2010 # # (0)

OK, so have any of you ever tried to read James Joyce’s Ulysses? I have. I hung in there for 30 pages. My reason for giving up: Joyce’s seemingly endless chain of references to obscure literary works. I figured if

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