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...teamed to release two films: Sleuth and The Heartbreak Kid. Now, on consecutive weekends in October 2007, come remakes of those movies. As it happens, the original Sleuth and Heartbreak were smart and funny and took a fairly brutal view of their main characters. The remakes, though honoring the basic plots of their predecessors, are dumb, witless and humiliating to all parties...
...atmosphere of politeness , says Thomas, comes from a basic respect for the institution. "People know they are working on something bigger than all of us, something that is going to be here when we are gone," he says. "So you don't get these kinds of personal reactions where people are saying they are upset, emotionally hurt about this or that. They might be exasperated. We are human beings. But in the end we realize this is not about...
...postgraduate fellowships was open to us: the Rhodes, the Marshall, the Sheldon. It wasn’t even a question of competing; they just simply would not have accepted an application from a woman.” She continues, “I think the basic fact of our existence was that Radcliffe students were not the norm. We were the deviation from the norm...
...goals for the book are lofty. “We will consider whether the signs of intelligent design in the English language imply a corresponding intelligence in every English speaker,” he writes, promising to show how “design quirks” in basic thoughts “give rise to fallacies, follies, and foibles in the way that people reason about the conundrums of modern life.” He does all of this while quoting Woody Allen, Jerry Seinfeld, George Carlin, and making as many sexual references as possible.Pinker’s lengthy...
...Democrats put on a great show, but they failed to consider the context of Limbaugh’s comment. Limbaugh was referring to Jesse Macbeth, a man who claimed to have killed over 200 people in Iraq but who never made it out of basic training—in short, a phony soldier. When pressed by a caller on Sept. 28 to explain his use of the plural, Limbaugh cited Scott Thomas Beauchamp, whose stories of war crimes by U.S. soldiers were retracted by The New Republic. And regardless of whether Limbaugh employed perfect grammar, a literal reading...