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...millions of viewers couldn't care less--so The Osbournes takes the fame issue straight on. We catch up with Ozzy and wife manager Sharon primping for the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the annual fete during which the two nerdiest groups of celebrities--politicians and journalists--surround themselves with actual stars to bask in the reflected cool. As George W. Bush gives Ozzy a shout-out from the podium and the Prince of Darkness leads the room in applause for himself, you hope that someone had the good sense to take away William Bennett's steak knife...
...good day she limits herself to two or three hours. "It can take up my whole evening. I don't do anything else." She experiments with using The Sims to "re-create real-life interpersonal relationships." Sauro has created an entire Sims world full of her actual friends and family. "The first year I had the game, we were all having affairs with one another's spouses," she says. "When the Sims get jealous, they slap each other. There was a lot of slapping...
...Pakistan is probably more of an actual terrorist sanctuary than a prime terrorist target. (Among other wanted extremists, Indonesian Hambali, Jemaah Islamiah's operations chief, has also reportedly sought refuge there.) The last thing al-Qaeda and its local supporters want is for Musharraf to have an excuse to crack down on the Islamic radical parties. After the strong showing in the Oct. 10 general elections, the religious parties will control Baluchistan and Northwest Frontier Provinces?hideouts for al-Qaeda and Taliban fugitives. These radical clerics may either put a stop to the FBI's investigations in these provinces outright...
...make no mistake that it is just that—an “event.” It’s hardly about what happens between the lines in the 119th playing of the football game. Rigorous academic research suggests that the actual game itself stopped being important circa 1923, back in the good ol’ days of dinky leather helmets worn by guys named Poindexter Q. Wilmington...
...Although the first team of actual inspectors arrives next Monday and is expected to start visiting previously inspected sites two days later, the Dec. 8 deadline remains a moment of truth, or more correctly, the start of a countdown to a moment of truth. Some overly gung-ho reports in the U.S. media suggest that Washington will immediately cry foul if Iraq's declaration doesn't match the Bush Administration's suspicions of its WMD programs. It's not quite that simple: The inspectors are being sent back precisely to investigate any discrepancy between what Saddam says...