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Consider: Brown's novel proposed an alternate history of Christianity, wherein a bitter schism took place shortly after Jesus' death, between the mean patriarchal faction who concealed Jesus' marriage and the nice faction consisting of startlingly liberal first-wave feminists. In other words, The Da Vinci Code recasts the history...
DeLay's motives seem less obvious. Since leaving Congress in June 2006, he's been running a political consultancy. Did someone counsel him that the path to elder statesmanship is best taken at a waltz? DeLay says he simply discussed the plan with his wife and daughter, both fans of...
Philandering spouses across France have been frantically pounding the Delete button on their phones this summer, after the country's highest appeals court ruled that steamy text messages are admissible as evidence in divorce cases. The judgment overturned a lower court's refusal to consider "Dear Pookie" messages as proof...
I had been hosting a number of programs, and Chuck Woolery, who was hosting Wheel of Fortune at that time, had taken ill for a week, so [Merv Griffin's people] asked me if I would come host his show. In 1983 they called and said, We're thinking of...
...window of time in which to implement reforms or else have a public option come into existence at the end of the window should they fail to meet certain benchmarks. Many other options are available, and we hope Democrats remain open to flexibility and give each alternative a fair consideration. Bipartisanship, however, can be a double-edged sword. Whereas some Republicans, like Snowe, are well intentioned and are sincerely working on health-care reform in order to better the bill, others, such as Iowa Senator Charles Grassley and Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, are wasting the president’s time...