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...astonished. There was no hint of her restlessness, none that he could detect. The stiff elegance with which he has carried himself droops in defeat. Jean's belief in his ownership of Gabrielle was the foundation of his comfortable view of life, his complacency and, as he perhaps now realizes, his self-deception. (Which makes the viewer question the acuity of his observations about friends and status...
...broadcasting to audiences looking for entertainment during languid summer vacation evenings. The big ticket this season is more reality TV than the usual melodrama: the mystery of what Italian defender Marco Materazzi said to provoke French soccer hero Zinedine Zidane's now notorious burst of violence during Italy's defeat of France in their World Cup final on Sunday. Almost 48 hours after Zidane's furious head-butting of Materazzi in the chest - an act provoking Zidane's ejection, an ignoble end to his otherwise stellar career - the mystery of exactly what set the 34 year-old Zidane off continues...
...portrait of Osama bin Laden with a thick black question mark over his face would have made a more appropriate cover image. I am worried that Americans are starting to believe that bin Laden does not exist, Iraq caused 9/11, and war is the only way to defeat fundamentalists. Rachel Cromidas La Jolla, California...
...While this shift in popular Western attitudes may seem irreversible, Benedict is refusing to accept defeat. Austen Ivereigh, a top aide to Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, says the battle of ideas is still on. "Benedict is a real intellectual. He has an almost touching faith in the power of reason," says Ivereigh. "He's convinced that the intellectual arguments are on his side. The challenge for him is to make the case without looking like he's old-fashioned. How do you make the case about traditional marriage something interesting and exciting? But if any Pope...
...looked over my shoulder at the parade of umbrellas processing along D.C.’s Massachusetts Ave., I thought about how I never would have imagined such a sight two years ago. In the wake of John Kerry’s defeat, I wrote an op-ed expressing my frustration that so many Christians had voted for President Bush, despite his policies which hurt the poor, whom Jesus Christ had asked us to care for. I was shocked to receive angry diatribes from Christians around the country telling me that I had misinterpreted the Bible and that I wasn?...