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...placards to the Beverly Hilton Hotel, the glamorous stars in their fabulous frocks might stay home. A Globes show without George Clooney, Angelina Jolie and Pia Zadora is no show at all. So the Hollywood Foreign Press Association has had to consider making its big party a strictly private affair. The stars will be there, but you can't watch...
...season overshadowed by Michael Vick's jailing, the murders of two players and a host of other off-field issues, the prospect of the Pats as champs seems oddly appropriate. After all, it's also a safe bet that these Pats will be forever tarnished by the Spygate affair, in which the team was caught trying to steal an opponent's signs, using a sideline camera. On the surface, more controversy would seem like the last thing the league needs. But it turns out the Patriots are the ideal villains. The drama inherent in their chase for an unblemished record...
...fortune from an Italian tire company - was once one of France's highest-paid fashion models. French voters have for decades prided themselves on keeping their distance from the sex lives of their Presidents. Indeed, it is widely assumed among the French that their political leaders have affairs, on the assumption that - as Henry Kissinger once noted - power is a great aphrodisiac. President Francois Mitterrand's decades-long affair outside his marriage was reported by journalists only after his child from the relationship appeared at his funeral. And during Bill Clinton's sex scandal and impeachment in 1996, the French...
...current paper recovers Harris's identity as a doctoral candidate in neuroscience at UCLA, his occupation before he commenced what he calls his "extramural affair jumping into trenches in the culture wars." It is an addition to the growing field of brain scan trials, and Harris thinks it may be the first to detail how the brain processes belief. At first read, it seems less dangerous to Christianity than to another cherished pillar of Western thought - that "objective" beliefs like "2 + 2 = 4" and "subjective" beliefs like "torture is bad" belong to entirely separate categories of thought...
...Bolivarian Revolution” in the rash, simplistic, and altogether-too-tired narratives of “left-wing populism” or “authoritarian socialism.” The reality remains that Chavez’s project of 21st century socialism is a complicated affair, but one with which—today—progressives must stand in critical solidarity. This requires two things.First, we must doggedly document and resist the arrogant propagandizing that scars this country’s mainstream intellectual currents. Partly, this position needs to be understood as a rejection of the priorities...