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Then Jamie surprised me by asking me to name a product I felt passion for?something I had a "special story" about. That seemed like backward '50s-think. Who cares what I like? I like whoever is going to pay me the most. Does she think Clive Owen likes to rub man lotions all over his body? Still, Jamie kept pressing the passion issue. So I blurted something out like "dessert wine and tea." There was a long silence. "Whoa, never heard that one before," she said. "That's probably not where the money...
...TIME: As we were saying, these sorts of things add to a perception that the effort here is going backward...
...displaced Shi'ites, courtesy of Iran. Because President Ahmadinejad enjoys pandering to public sentiment in the Arab world, the flow of Iranian resources to Lebanon is no secret. But this spending on a faraway Arab community infuriates Iranians and revives an ugly Persian chauvinism that considers Arabs uncultured and backward. One story I heard last week has the wife of Hizballah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah receiving a gift of Iranian caviar and thinking it was some sort...
...mere 86 lbs.; dark circles above her cheeks; a Kean-eyed elf. Then, with no more strain than it would take to raise a hand to a friend, she is airborne: a backflip, landing on the sliver of a bar with a thunk so solid it reverberates; up, backward again, a second blind flip, and a landing. No 747 ever set itself down on a two-mile runway with more assurance or aplomb. She leaps, twists, spins, and the 18,000 people in Montreal's Forum realize that they are witnessing an exhibition of individual achievement that is truly Olympian...
...When a right-wing berserker like Simon Heffer claims that “Mr. Cameron says very little because he has very little to say…many natural Tories feel entirely unrepresented,.” he really means “Cameron has failed to patronize the xenophobic, backward looking paleo-conservative branch of the party.” This sort of internecine fighting is not exactly unfamiliar to American politics —see Lieberman v. Lamont—but in the U.S. ideological battles take place on an individual level, in a thousand different primary contests. There...