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...with his transgression. Had he been an undergraduate, such mistakes may have ruined his academic career. But because he is an all-star academic, they likely won’t even make a footnote in a biography of his life. In truth, what is most disheartening about the whole affair is that Tribe’s colleagues let him down for 19 years by allowing the plagiarism to pass by without scrutiny. All of academia is poorer...
...says, "to make films is like a circus. We should just go from one town to another, always on the road, stopping when we think we should stop. To me, if there's no Cannes, you can make 2046 for another year." Is it a circus or a love affair, whose ending he both dreads and prays for? As Chow says in the movie, "You can't leave 2046. You can only hope it leaves you." Filmmaking for Wong Kar-wai is like an addiction, benign but incurable...
...played the sax on Arsenio and talked about his underwear on MTV. The Democrats invented the war room, having learned from the evisceration of Dukakis that every attack must be answered. In some ways, Kerry's team has adapted to the new world. When rumors of an affair with an intern swirled last February, Kerry followed the cardinal rule: Don't elevate rumors into a story in the mainstream press. He went on Don Imus' radio show to deny them, and they faded away...
...calling him biased since before man walked on the moon seems to have done little to deter him. When he covered President Richard Nixon, he was known as "the reporter the White House hates." In 1988 he relentlessly grilled George H.W. Bush, then Vice President, about the Iran-contra affair, and the elder Bush has not spoken to him since. Rather got in trouble again in 2001 for speaking at a Democratic fund-raiser in Texas, for which he later apologized. But those who know him well say he isn't driven by politics as much as his addiction...
...LAURA LINNEY IN P.S.She should have won in 2001 for You Can Count on Me, and she also scores as Neeson's wife in Kinsey. In this tale of a teacher- student affair, she uses subtle gestures to create a smart, sexy, vulnerable woman. Other actresses may cry Uncle. We cry Oscar! --By Richard Corliss