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Boston has suffered a drought since 1918, and we Sox fans still curse ourselves for bringing the curse upon us: selling Babe might have been the greatest mistake ever for the city. But Chicago has been absent from the Series for a decade longer and ostensibly for a far more ridiculous reason. The Cubs’ drought has nothing to do with management decisions. Instead, they say it’s because a popular and powerful pub owner was not allowed to bring his goat in to Wrigley Field, even though the goat had a ticket. Furious, the man pronounced...
With last week’s announcement that Iranian activist Shirin Ebadi had taken home the Nobel Peace Prize, the 2003 Nobel season came to a close. And for the sixth consecutive year, Harvard professors stayed home empty-handed, absent from the ranks of those who “shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind...
Determining who said what to whom is a prosecutor's nightmare. Dozens of government employees probably knew that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, was a CIA operative, and any one of them could have leaked the information. "Absent a confession, it's almost impossible to prove these cases," says Jeffrey Smith, the CIA's general counsel during the Clinton Administration...
...only child stars who have attempted to forge teenage careers. Raven Simone, the youngest Cosby, dropped a record of her own a few years back. But as That’s So Raven languishes in a K-Mart bargain bin somewhere in Omaha, we must accept the sad truth: absent the blonde, former child stars haven’t a prayer of retaining their fame. Sorry, Pete and Pete, the masses have spoken: 10 million girls of America want Olsen movies—and clothes and makeup and books and posters and pez dispensers—today...
...let’s not be too hasty in discrediting Britney or the Olsens. While accounting for their fame absent the blonde locks would be difficult, it’s theoretically possible (each is, after all, a triple threat in her own right—singer, dancer and actress). No such alternate explanations exist for the fame of my latest blonde obsession, hotel heiress Paris Hilton. She is so devoid of talent that she inspired equally talentless B-list comedian Jeffrey Ross to announce at Carson Daly’s Roast how proud he was to be on a stage...