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...imperfect NFL 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...
...right and the left, in favor of cultural diversity ... goes well beyond the simple defense of French culture. But as TIME rightly underlines, this solid consensus ? must not be a pretext for withdrawal into ourselves. It must on the contrary incite us to be audacious, to bet on the talent of new generations, by widening access to culture, by opening France still more to sensibilities from beyond its borders. Jean-Marie Bockel, SECRETARY OF STATE FOR COOPERATION AND FRANCOPHONE AFFAIRS, IN LE FIGARO...
...With this sort of folksy encouragement, Huckabee has bet that what he lacks in organization, he can make up for in enthusiasm, especially among the party's religious base. "Huckabee has a very active, passionate organization on the ground, but the campaign just isn't organized," said one veteran Iowa operative working for a rival Republican campaign. "He's got natural networks out there that are doing it themselves." These include some of the same networks that allowed Huckabee to place a surprise second in the August Ames straw poll: home schoolers, Bible study groups, and well-organized supporters...
...series. 1. Hergé, “The Adventures of Tintin”: This classic, early twentieth-century cartoon series tells the stories of globetrotting Belgian investigative reporter Tintin and his loyal dog Snowy. The beauty of the books lies in their genuinely thrilling plots. I’d bet that more things happened during one installment of “The Adventures of Tintin” than in the past two years of contemporary American fiction. 2. Rosemary Wells, “Max and Ruby”: Who could resist these tales of the bumbling bunny...
...Thank Prince for creating a generation of functionally illiterate pop stars. There’s some other biting going on too. A lot of the production work—frequently provided by Tricky Stewart—sounds as though Timbaland took several shots of Nyquil and then bet himself that he couldn’t make half an album’s worth of beats before falling asleep. Just listen to “She Needs My Love” or “Ditch That,” a dead ringer—albeit a dull one?...