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...show business--and the offense-contrition-comeback cycle has become so familiar--that the scandals immediately became dispassionate meta-stories about scandal management. After Gibson's outburst, we asked how rehab and apology could salvage his Mayan thriller, Apocalypto. We didn't look so hard at how his bile reflected on the millions who loved The Passion of the Christ, with its hook-nosed, despicable Jews. About Richards, we asked, Did he seem sad enough on Letterman? What do p.r. experts advise? How will the incident affect Seinfeld reruns and DVDs...
...Vietnamese schools and taught some 100,000 children about the country's wildlife. It has trained rangers in 30 national parks to set up school programs on local endangered species. Vietnamese pop star My Linh appeared in a 2004 ENV television commercial urging people not to consume bear-bile tonic, which is extracted from the stomachs of trapped bears using steel catheters. This year, ENV set up a national wildlife-trafficking hotline for people to report poaching and restaurants serving endangered species. The staff has expanded to 22. "At the moment, I'm the oldest person in the organization," laughs...
...death squads responsible for many of the worst recent atrocities, no Sunni name incites more bile than Omar. (The original Omar was Islam's second Caliph and is reviled by Shi'ites who believe he worked against the interests of Ali, the son-in-law of the Prophet Muhammad.) More than a dozen Omars interviewed by TIME say that when they produce identification cards bearing their name, they regularly endure harassment by Shi'ite policemen and government officials. Others have met a more gruesome fate. In a single incident last earlier this year, the bodies of 14 Omars were found...
...ignore its pretensions and just rock out. Maybe that letter in the press packet was a joke—a little something to ruffle the feathers of overly analytical rock critics. I certainly hope so. I’d really like to enjoy this record without the taste of bile in my mouth. —Reviewer Bernard L. Parham can be reached at parham@fas.harvard.edu...
...depressed because there is something wrong with them: they’re depressed because there is something to them. The Greeks had it right. They held that the smartest of men had the tendency to become the most depressed. Melancholia, the Greek term for “black bile,” was said to foster pensively intellectual thinkers. And in history, so many great leaders have been depressive or unpleasant. Abraham Lincoln’s melancholia often led him to “weep in public and cite maudlin poetry”, according to Lincoln biographer Joshua Shenk...