Thomas H. Benton: The 7 Deadly Sins of Students (chronicle.com)
I've been teaching for about 10 years now, and, of course, I was a student for 20 years before that. So I have some experience observing my students' sins, and perhaps even more experience committing them.
Daniel Gross: ARMs Control
That adjustable-rate mortgage seemed like such a great idea. Then interest rates started climbing.
Bette Howland: Harry Houdini, The Escape Artist
Houdini was his own biographer. Take the one about him as a messenger boy, coming home late one winter night. It's Christmas eve, he's covered with snow, the cupboard is bare. "Shake me," he tells his mother. "Shake me, I'm magic." He gives a shimmy, and coins-tips he's collected all the long day-come clattering down from his cap and jacket, and roll, glittering, over the floor. Is it true? Did it happen, this first and best of all magic tricks? Trust the tale: Houdini made it come true.
ROGER EBERT: The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (4 stars)
It must be like this with many people, and not just in Romania. A smelly old drunk calls for an ambulance after having a headache for four days. The ambulance service asks him so many questions he doubts they believe him, and he asks his neighbors for help. They stretch him out on a sofa, ask him how he feels and complain about the stink of his cats. They call the ambulance again.
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by the SEASON FINALE'Survivor: Panama', then the FRESH'Survivor: Panama - Reunion'.
NBC opens the night with a RERUN'West Wing' (the 1st episode), followed by the SERIES FINALE'West Wing', then the 2-hour SEASON FINALE'Law & Order: Criminal Intent'.
ABC begins the night with the SEASON FINALE'America's Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Despersate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Grey's Anatomy'.
The WB offers a RERUN'Reba', followed by another RERUN'Reba', then a FRESH'Charmed', followed by a RERUN'Charmed'.
Faux has a RERUN'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'King Of The Hill', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by the SERIES FINALE'Malcolm', then a FRESH'Family Guy', followed by the SEASON FINALE'American Dad'.
UPN has an old 'Alias', followed by an old 'Fear Factor'.
A&E has has 'Sell This House', another 'Sell This House', 'Flip This House', 'Iceman Tapes: Conversations with a Killer', and 'Intervention'.
AMC offers offers the movie 'Tammy and the Bachelor', followed by the movie 'Working Girl', then the movie 'Love Affair'.
BBC -
[2pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Morocco;
[2:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Poor;
[3:20pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Birth;
[4pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Iso Tank;
[4:40pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Magazine;
[5:20pm] 'Absolutely Fabulous' - Birthday;
[6pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - France 14;
[6:30pm] 'Bargain Hunt' - Derby 4;
[7pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[8pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Geoghegan;
[9pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Episode 5;
[10pm] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 6;
[11pm] 'Cash in the Attic' - Edwards;
[12am] 'Cash in the Attic';
[1am] 'Footballers Wives' - Episode 6;
[2am] 'Cash in the Attic' - Geoghegan;
[3am] 'My Hero' - Baby Talk;
[3:40am] 'My Hero' - Zero Tolerance;
[4:20am] 'My Hero' - Pet Rescue;
[5am] 'This Life' - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner;
[6am] 'BBC World News'. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Bravo has has 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', another 'Law & Order: Criminal Intent', 'Inside The Actors Studio' (Tom Hanks), and 'Kathy Griffin: Strong Black Woman'.
Comedy Central has has the movie 'Super Troopers', followed by the mvoie 'Bad Santa'.
History has has 'Mega Disasters', 'Titanic's Final Moments: Missing Pieces', and 'Rogue Waves'.
IFC -
[6AM] An Affair Of Love;
[7:25AM] The Sweet Hereafter;
[9:30AM] Crossover;
[10:30AM] Daytrippers;
[12:05PM] Joe Gould's Secret;
[2PM] Men With Guns;
[4:15PM] The Secret Agent;
[6:10PM] Joe Gould's Secret;
[8PM] Short Cuts;
[11:15PM] Walking Dead;
[12:50AM] An Affair Of Love;
[2:15AM] Short Cuts;
[5:30AM] At The IFC Center #13. (ALL TIMES EDT)
SciFi has has the movie 'Poltergeist', followed by the movie 'Thirteen Ghosts'.
Sundance -
[6:45AM] 2 + 2;
[7AM] In Search of Gregory;
[8:30AM] Silent Running;
[10AM] Purple Hearts;
[11:25AM] In Short: In Short: Conflict;
[12PM] Buena Vista Social Club;
[1:45PM] 2 + 2;
[2PM] Ladette to Lady: Episode 5;
[3PM] Kath & Kim: Money;
[3:30PM] In Short: In Short: Subway;
[4PM] Kath & Kim: Cactus Hour;
[4:30PM] Kath & Kim: Mango Espradrille;
[5PM] Kath & Kim: Sitting on a Pile;
[5:30PM] Kath & Kim: Kicking Up a Stink;
[6PM] Kath & Kim: Hello Nails;
[6:30PM] Kath & Kim: High and Dry;
[7PM] Kath & Kim: Foxy On the Run;
[7:30PM] Kath & Kim: 99 Percent Fat Free;
[8PM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 1: Season's End;
[9PM] Monkey Dust: Episode 4;
[9:30PM] Kath & Kim: Money;
[10PM] La Vie Promise;
[11:30PM] Godly Boyish;
[12AM] A Snake of June;
[1:30AM] In Short: In Short: Subway;
[2AM] Slings and Arrows: Episode 1: Season's End;
[3AM] Monkey Dust: Episode 4;
[3:30AM] The Living End;
[5AM] Silent Running. (ALL TIMES EDT)
Soul music legend Aretha Franklin and Grammy-winning singer songwriter Melissa Etheridge (L) chat at the Berklee College of Music commencement in Boston, Massachusetts, May 13, 2006. Franklin and Etheridge were both awarded Honorary Doctor of Music degrees from Berklee College of Music.
Photo by Jessica Rinaldi
A group of mothers led by prominent war opponent Cindy Sheehan, who lost her soldier son in Iraq, started a 24-hour vigil outside the White House to protest the war in Iraq.
Women for Peace, made up of mothers and their families, met at 3:00 pm (1900 GMT) prepared to spend the night outside the White House before dispersing at the same time Sunday.
Resident George W. Bush will not be at the White House, but at the presidential weekend retreat at Camp David.
In this handout photo released Friday, May 12, 2006, Conservative TV pervert and loofah-enthusiast Bill O'Reilly, left, poses with Stephen Colbert, host of Comedy Central's 'The Colbert Report.' at the TIME 100 event in New York, Monday, May 8, 2006, celebrating TIME's list of the 100 most influential people in the world. Colbert, 41, made the list of influential artists and entertainers along with George Clooney, Will Smith, Howard Stern and Daddy Yankee.
Photo by Ivan Villegas
Democratic Sen. Barack Obama has repeatedly said he doesn't plan to run for president in two years.
Yet the freshman senator from Illinois says that if he did, he's already picked a late-night talk show host to appear on the ticket with him.
How does Obama-O'Brien '08 sound?
"It would be the worst thing you ever did," O'Brien told Obama. "You'd think it was funny and then like a day later you'd go, `God, I'm an idiot!'"
On "Late Night," which taped in Chicago this week instead of New York, a relaxed Obama talked about everything from his hard-to-pronounce name to how his wife makes fun of his ears.
Reclusive poet and troubadour Leonard Cohen made a rare public appearance on Saturday to promote his first book in 22 years, which he hopes will help him recoup some of the money he says was stolen by his former manager.
Cohen, 71, recently, won a $9 million lawsuit against Kelley Lynch, his one-time lover and manager of nearly 17 years, whom Cohen says skimmed more than $5 million of his savings over eight years, leaving him about $150,000 to retire on.
Dressed in a charcoal suit, he recited a short poem in his signature baritone and performed two of his most famous songs, "So Long, Marianne" and "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," along with Canadian musicians Barenaked Ladies, and Ron Sexsmith.
Julie Andrews wannabes queued on Friday to audition for a reality TV show with a new twist -- the winner gets the lead role in a new Andrew Lloyd Webber stage production of "The Sound of Music."
A BBC spokeswoman for the "How Do I Solve A Problem Like Maria?" show said more than 1,000 hopefuls had applied for the London weekend of auditions at the Wembley conference center.
They will be gradually whittled down to 10 finalists with television viewers voting for who should star in the London West End production due to open at the end of the year.
Anti-Iraqi war protesters lay on the ground on the Ellipse near the White House in Washington May 13, 2006 to create an image with their bodies that reads 'Mom says no war'. Mothers and peace activists gather to call for an end to the war in Iraq and stand against a military attack on Iran.
Photo by Yuri Gripas
The Saint Louis Art Museum will keep a 3,200-year-old mummy mask unless it gets more proof that it belongs to Egypt.
The museum won't meet a May 15 deadline set by Egyptian antiquities authorities to return the mask, Museum Director Brent Benjamin said Friday. He noted that the Supreme Council of Antiquities never officially gave the museum a deadline.
Zahi Hawass, Secretary General for the Supreme Council of Antiquities in Egypt, said that the mummy mask was probably stolen before it was obtained by the art museum in 1998.
The museum bought the mask from an art dealer in the United States in 1998 for about $500,000, only after checking with authorities and the international Art Loss Register to see if the item was stolen. The museum also approved the purchase with the Egyptian Museum, Benjamin said.
A syndicated hip-hop disc jockey arrested after making on-air racial and sexual rants about a rival radio personality's wife and young child has been released on bail.
DJ Star, whose real name is Troi Torain, was charged with endangering the welfare of a child after a broadcast on Power 105.1 FM.
Transcripts show he hurled racist insults, threatened to sexually abuse the 4-year-old daughter of his rival, Hot 97's DJ Envy, and offered $500 for information about where she went to school.
Torain - along with his brother Timothy Joseph, known as Buc Wild - was the host of Clear Channel Radio's syndicated morning show on Power 105. The company fired Torain after city officials complained. Their show aired in markets including Philadelphia, Miami and Richmond, Va.
Former U.S. President Bill Clinton receives a honorary degree during the Tulane University Commencement in New Orleans May 13, 2006.
Photo by Alex Brandon
A woman was indicted for allegedly stealing memorabilia of late classical pianist Glenn Gould from a Canadian library and selling some of the items, prosecutors said.
Barbara Moore, 62, of Austin, Texas, allegedly stole the mementos from the Canadian Library and Archives Glenn Gould collection in Ottawa while doing research there in the late 1980s, said Jennifer Kushner, spokeswoman for the Manhattan district attorney's office.
Moore was charged with third-degree criminal possession of stolen property, fourth-degree grand larceny, and third-degree attempted grand larceny. She faces up to seven years in prison if convicted on the stolen property possession charge, and up to four years if convicted on the others.
Lindsay Lohan, left, and Nicole Richie participate in a '70s-themed fashion show featuring Tommy Hilfiger designs at the '13th Annual Race to Erase M.S.' event at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, Friday, May 12, 2006.
Photo by Chris Pizzello
A judge refused to throw out a lawsuit against Nick Nolte and his son filed by a woman who claimed a partygoer drugged and sexually assaulted her at the actor's home when she was 15.
The lawsuit contends that the woman, now 18, was given the so-called "date-rape" drug GHB and assaulted at a Jan. 25, 2003, party at Nolte's Malibu home.
Nolte's publicist has said the actor wasn't home during the party. However, the lawsuit claims he was negligent, contending that the home had "a long history of furnishing drugs and/or alcohol to minors."
Wyatt Earp III rides on a Segway in a sheriff's costume as he gets ready for the Helldorado Days parade in downtown Las Vegas, Saturday, May 13, 2006.
Photo by Jae C. Hong
Record producer Phil Spector lost a bid Friday to delay court proceedings on lawsuits involving his former assistant until his murder trial is over.
Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon ruled that since Spector was first to file suit against Michelle Blaine he will have to live with the consequences of that decision.
Spector claimed in his lawsuit that Blaine siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars from his accounts.
Blaine then countersued, claiming she never stole from Spector but was given large amounts of money to keep her from testifying against him in the death of actress Lana Clarkson.
U.S. entertainer Ellen DeGeneres (C), wearing a bath robe, holds an umbrella during a commencement ceremony for Tulane University students in New Orleans May 13, 2006. The 2006 class was the first to graduate since Hurricane Katrina.
Photo by Lee Celano
Archaeologists discovered a pre-colonial astrological observatory possibly 2,000 years old in the Amazon basin near French Guiana, said a report.
"Only a society with a complex culture could have built such a monument," archaeologist Mariana Petry Cabral, of the Amapa Institute of Scientific and Technological Research (IEPA), told O Globo newspaper.
The observatory was built of 127 blocks of granite each three meters (10 feet) high and regularly placed in circles in an open field, she said.
A rarely-seen heart crab, which has very hairy legs and a heart-shape is dislplayed by Mark Schroeder, a wildlife biologist with the federal Minerals Management Service at Smitty's Cove in Whittier, Alaska Wednesday May 10, 2006. The crab will be released into Alaska's first artificial reef made up of concrete balls and pyramids weighing hundreds of pounds at the bottom of Smitty's Cove. The reef was in response to damage done when Alaska Marine Lines expanded its container facility at Whittier last year.
Photo by Al Grillo
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