Word: columnists
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...attempt to impeach the President once a year). The allegations underscore just how toxic the political atmosphere has become: Arroyo's administration is being accused of bribing lawmakers to support her own impeachment. "What galls the public was that it was done so flagrantly," says political analyst and newspaper columnist Manuel L. Quezon III, referring to the bags of cash. "In the Philippines, everyone expects everyone else to be a crook. What Filipinos cannot stand is a brazen crook...
...party elders reasoned that driving slower uses less gas and therefore contributes less CO2 to the atmosphere. But many Germans are not impressed. The idea of a speed limit left Franz Joseph Wagner, a columnist in the daily Bild, a mass circulation paper, frankly fuming. After musing in German fashion on the virtues of automobiles generally as "the horses of modern times, "the best horse that ever was," the commentator wrote: "Leave me my car that...
...comes Dan in Real Life with Steve Carell, an actor whose appealing, interior, sad-sack demeanor is made for chick comedy. He plays Dan Burns, an advice columnist and widowed father of three girls, who instantly falls for the lovely Marie (Juliet Binoche) when they meet at a bookstore. Darn the luck, she turns out to be the new girlfriend of Dan's younger brother Mitch (Dane Cook, who's already had his own failed fall comedy, Good Luck Chuck). A mainstream comedy with an indie vibe, Dan hopes to be the film that gets couples back in the theater...
...sometimes a bad dad." (This is supposed to be sage; I think it's closer to rude.) In an early scene Dan lectures his middle child that "You can't fall in love in three days." Then he meets Marie and does it in three minutes. See? The advice columnist can't take his own advice. Hilarious...
Despite forecasts that the age of print journalism is over, traditional reporting continues to play a vital role in holding public officials accountable, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd said last night at the Kennedy School of Government. “It’s a tough time for journalism,” she said in the 2007 Theodore H. White Lecture. “But I don’t worry too much about journalism’s future.” Political reporters take on the crucial task of creating a narrative that gives Americans a clearer sense...