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Although certain self-parodying epiphenomena of the Age of Profligacy - so long, Paris Hilton! - are about to disappear, fun will endure. Hollywood is doing fantastic box-office business, thanks to insanely unserious movies like Paul Blart: Mall Cop and Madea Goes to Jail. The Colbert Report has been a special haven of sanity amid the sky-is-falling hysteria. And again, history is encouraging in this regard: Saturday Night Live and modern comedy were born during the malaise-y '70s, just as wit and humor - the New Yorker, the Marx Brothers, screwball comedy - flourished in the '30s. I'm even...
...Another problem - increasingly - is conflict of interest. As pharmaceutical companies fund more of their own trials, the studies may be designed to yield the sunniest results possible. Allowing a new drug to shadow-box against a placebo, for instance, promises more marketable results than pitting it against a competing drug that's already on the market. Publicizing only surrogate outcomes without mentioning whether the patient benefits in any substantive way is another common drug company dodge. So is burying - or at least minimizing - side effects or other shortcomings...
...slated for that period, no Bollywood films were due for release, all TV serials were heading for a close just before IPL. People will be angry," he says. In a country where the price of onions has determined election results, messing with cricket might prove costly at the ballot box...
...evidently Roberts practices what she preaches. The '90s box-office queen has a life, including a husband who works in Hollywood (but below the line), three kids and a solar-powered house. With her latest choice of roles, she's aiming not just higher but also smarter...
...repudiated in favor of secular, nationalist groups. But will this resurgent nationalism carry through to the more important parliamentary elections slated for December? And if so, what will a reordered Iraqi political scene mean for future U.S. ties to Iraq? Will sharpened intrasectarian battles be fought at the ballot box or on the streets...