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...writes in the New York Times that he felt a similar Holocaust-movie fatigue when offered the idea of a film on the Bielski brothers, a band of real-life Jews in Belorussia during World War II. "I groaned, 'Not another movie about victims,' " he writes. But he went ahead and made Defiance anyway...
...ahead of his time as a supporter of health food, exercise and physical culture. He wrote lots of books on health and eventually became a publisher. Initially, there used to be 12 or 20 winter-bathing groups on Coney Island. It used to be a big activity in the early 1900s, but we're the oldest surviving group. For years, our mothers told us that if you get your feet wet during the winter you're going to catch pneumonia and die. And we simply find that is not the case...
According to Golf Digest, Obama ranks eighth among the list of golfing Presidents, behind Bill Clinton but ahead of Ronald Reagan. Unlike JFK, who ranks number 1 on the Golf Digest list of 15, Obama does not shoot consistently in the 80's nor does not he play 100 rounds a year like Dwight Eisenhower (who is second in the list...
...shoes, and a red baseball cap emblazoned with the City and County of Honolulu's Ocean Safety logo, drove down to the driving range. Standing next to Whitaker, Obama , with a white glove on his right hand, took three practice swings. His first shot was a ground ball straight ahead. His next shot went airborne but created a divot that Obama walked out to pick up and replace...
...Israel and Hamas both know that there will be a cease-fire in Gaza. Its timing and terms will be "negotiated" in bombs and bloodshed in the days ahead; it will be mediated by a third party or a combination of third parties; and it will be shaped by a complex regional power game involving an array of competing Israeli politicians, the rival Palestinian leaderships of Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas, Egypt, Syria and even more distant players such as Turkey, Iran and, of course, the United States. The victims of this "negotiation," needless to say, will be scores...