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...media. ESPN is a media outlet. He was commenting on how the MEDIA portrays and promotes certain athletes, similar to the way we hear of an East Coast bias in college football rankings. McNabb is a good QB, but the Eagles' defense does carry that team. James Crawford Colorado Springs, Colo...
...French, ignore the Germans." But at the U.N. General Assembly last week, Bush and Schröder met for a 40-minute tête-à-tête, complete with a photo-op handshake and pretty smiles. What's next - Schröder at Camp David or even Crawford? Whence this sudden warmth between two men who presumably still can't stand each other? As a Bush adviser said, "Things change." And Republican Senator Chuck Hagel added: "The forces of reality have set in." Reality, though, has been biting both sides. The U.S.: with every dead soldier in Iraq...
...Turkey, among others, into the theater of operations. But since none of these nations would commit without a new Security Council resolution, desultory discussions took place in July on the possibility of a new U.N. mandate. They didn't get very far. Bush left for his vacation in Crawford, Texas, calling for a greater international presence in Iraq but avoided saying whether the U.N. would have more authority there...
Ball of Fire is subtitled The Tumultuous Life and Comic Art of Lucille Ball. Kanfer does well by the tumultuous life, dishing with relish such anecdotes as the time Joan Crawford was a guest on The Lucy Show and declared that Ball "could 'outbitch' her any day of the week." But as for the comic art, he's short on insight, he offers little cultural context, and his one original explanation for I Love Lucy's enduring success is just weird: people love it because it is in black and white. "There is something incompatible," Kanfer writes, "about humor...
...find a need and fill it," says Julie Chaiken, whose eponymous high-end fashion label introduced Chaiken with Child two years ago. "A good percentage of our customers are pregnant, and we don't want to lose them for nine months." At the request of special clients like Cindy Crawford and supermodel Vendela, Chaiken began creating a maternity version of its signature pants--with elastic in the waistband and an emphatic lack of ugly front pouches. Scouts at high-end department stores like Barneys New York heard about the designer's expanding waistlines and asked for wider production. "There...