Word: contently
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...band N’Sync, publicly announced that he was gay, and Mel Gibson belligerently said that “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” while being arrested for driving under the influence of a 0.12 blood alcohol content. Gibson was previously accused of anti-Semitism after his 2004 movie “The Passion of the Christ.” Charged for misdemeanor drunken driving, Gibson awaits a Sept. 28 court date. He has apologized to the Jewish community and has since checked himself into Alcoholics Anonymous. In other news, Lindsay...
Nesson drummed up interest in his filled-to-capacity course through a YouTube promotional tape in which he describes its content after a dramatic entrance on a scooter. The tape is mostly narrated by his significantly younger-looking Second Life persona—called an “avatar...
...seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industrysurvive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising--classifieds--is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from random lunatics riffing in their underwear, rather than professional journalists with standards and passports...
...sweet memories of summer. Just a few weeks ago, Telecom Italia's dashing chairman Marco Tronchetti Provera boarded Rupert Murdoch's private yacht off the Greek island of Zakynthos, seeking to buy media content from the Aussie-born mogul for Telecom's broadband service. Even more enticing was the possibility that Murdoch might want a stake in the [an error occurred while processing this directive] Italian company's mobile-phone unit, which would help lift it out of its €41 billion debt. At the very least, said Tarak Ben Ammar, Murdoch's go-to guy in Italy: "The water...
...expressed my frustration that such a major ordeal had seemed to have so little effect on me--I was still the same impatient, competitive and self-critical person I'd always been. If I had acted so nobly, why didn't I feel more content? Wain's response struck me at the time as somewhat facile: the good deed, he said, had left me angry at myself. "You're thinking you could have done the same thing and didn't have to lose the hand. You love a perfect win and didn't get that perfect victory that you wanted...