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...marijuana affair reflects the problems faced by a sport that has been assigned a deep cultural significance, yet which is struggling to sustain interest. The number of aspiring wrestlers is dwindling: Whereas each tournament used to attract over 100 new applicants up until about a decade ago to join the ranks of the rikishi, in the most recent event there were only three. "Because of a low birth rate there are fewer children to grow up to become sumo wrestlers," says sports journalist Seijun Ninomiya. "So, out of necessity, we began to turn to overseas athletes." Today, more than...
...York's idle rich, wasting their days on manicures, fashion shows and, above all, gossip. In updating the original, English - who was responsible for the estimable TV series Murphy Brown - has been fairly faithful to her source. Once again, the husband of Mary Haines (Meg Ryan) begins an affair with Crystal Allen (Eva Mendes), a perfume salesperson at Saks Fifth Avenue, which launches an arch and endless chatter that naturally makes a bad situation worse. A divorce ensues, and it requires what seems like 15 hours of screen time before a happy ending is achieved...
...asked if she could be both a VP and a mom--and extrapolated from it that questioning her experience must also be sexist. And they also blamed the media for a feeding frenzy over Bristol Palin's pregnancy, when in fact the story had emerged much like John Edwards' affair: mainstream media aired it after the principals volunteered it, pushed by rumors on blogs. It's easy to run against the media in the Internet age, when the media are everything from the Washington Post to the Daily Kos comments section. If you can roll them together and pressure some...
...veteran analysts--starchy, sulfur-mouthed Osborne Cox (John Malkovich)--out of the agency. In revenge, Osborne starts composing his memoirs, a computer disc of which falls into the hands of two gym employees: lovelorn Linda Litzke (Frances McDormand) and her goofball pal Chad Feldheimer (Pitt). Linda is having an affair with federal Marshal Harry Pfarrer (Clooney), who's also been servicing Osborne's icy wife (Tilda Swinton). When Chad and Linda contact Osborne to return the disc, Harry stumbles into the deal. Plot thickens; nooses tighten...
...Palin take the unusual step this week of filing an ethics complaint - against herself. Ethics complaints are heard by the three-member Personnel Board, whose members are all Palin appointees, and Van Flein has claimed that the entire legislative investigation should be stopped because it has become a partisan affair. The legislature, however, has refused her calls to stop their investigation in lieu of the ethics complaint. In the past week, seven witnesses from Palin's staff said through their lawyers that they would back out of previously scheduled Senate depositions. The Anchorage Daily News said in a recent...