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Villa Moda shows why fashion is interested in Majed al-Sabah, but why is Majed al-Sabah interested in fashion? His stock answer, "I've always had a passion for fashion," hardly explains why a could-be leader of his country would annoy his relatives by deflecting suggestions that he become the country's next ambassador to Italy and instead go into a field so unseemly, so unmacho, so unimportant to global affairs...
...much new research has appeared that in November the Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and the National Institute on Drug Abuse will publish a 100-page supplement devoted entirely to marijuana. The Journal gave Time an advance look; it's a comprehensive review that will annoy both sides in the drug war. You won't find clear evidence that pot is good or evil, but the research sheds light on some of the most important questions surrounding the drug...
...finger command, the fortune and weather options as well as the ubiquitous “ph.” Also facing nearly certain death is the antiquated—but amusing—telnet “talk,” which, despite instant messaging, has survived intact to annoy anyone who is logged in for too long and makes it easy to send obnoxious banners to those folks worth disturbing. Webmail, meanwhile, leaves no user trail—which might be safer, but is surely a lot less...
...more than thirty years), he tried his hand at a wide variety of literary genres: from poetry and drama to fiction, journalism, history and polemics, as well as a voluminous (and decidedly indiscreet) journal. Primarily, sometimes exclusively, known as a literary critic (a fact that never failed to annoy him), he also found time to write an average of more than two-and-a-half letters per day for every day of his life - an astounding 70,000 in all. Although two previous collections of his correspondence have been published, the vast majority of his more personal letters have remained...
...industry, claims that by failing to provide enough captioned screenings, distributors and theaters are violating the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act. Studios should supply theaters with open-captioned films, in which dialogue appears onscreen, Todd's attorneys say. The studios' complaint against open captioning has been that it will annoy hearing customers. But advocates say open-captioned screenings, which occur sporadically around the country, haven't drawn complaints. And viewers have grown used to captions on TVs at gyms and airports, advocates say, which may make the studios' case less persuasive to a jury. Several of the defendants, including 20th...