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...Brown James Blunt’s latest video is the sort of melodramatic, post-bad break-up story that would be expected from everyone’s favorite sensitive singer-songwriter. We find Blunt dejected once again, sitting in an empty hotel bedroom reflecting on his past relationship...
...Barton in a familiar role: the tormented lover. If there are any differences between her character here and Marissa Cooper, they’re not apparent. She wears flowing, angelic white clothes in a white-curtained room. But she’s clearly no angel, because she left poor Blunt so sad. The sexually-charged, possibly adulterous images of Barton wouldn’t have been out of place in the movie “Closer...
...question is, Could he really have stepped forward? Would anyone with even the faintest pedophiliac stirrings dare? The blunt instrument with which the culture defines pedophilia and the utterly unforgiving way with which we react to it may simply make it impossible. In the same week in which the Amish were burying their dead, Robert Fontanez, a 27-year-old Delaware man, received a sentence of five years for negligent homicide as punishment for beating a 77-year-old neighbor to death after his five-year old daughter accused the man of touching her inappropriately. A medical exam...
...DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN runs an interesting piece on websites that predict your chances of getting into particular schools: Questions range from the basic to the blunt. ThickEnvelope, for example, asks clients: "Would you say that your mother or father is a nationally recognized, very important person or well-known celebrity?"What the DP doesn't do, but could have, is pay for some ex-post-facto predicting, checking to see if the sites are any good at guessing whether current Penn students would be admitted to the school...
...offers to do fund raisers for them. Even the leadership's much vaunted discipline seems to be in tatters. Majority leader Boehner defended himself last week by attacking Hastert: "My position is, it's in his corner, it's his responsibility." And the third in command, whip Roy Blunt, suggested that things would have been different if he had been informed. Not incidentally, both men are expected to consider making a bid for the top job if Hastert ultimately steps down--and maybe if he doesn't. But by then the job description may be House minority leader...