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...their gullibility. The companies, which include American Family Enterprises (partly owned by Time Inc., publisher of TIME), Publishers Clearing House and the Reader's Digest Association, might prefer to avoid regulation. They testified that contest rules and odds are being made clearer and that the names of people who spend exorbitant amounts of money on subscriptions in the hope of improving their odds were being dropped from their lists. That might avoid the complications created by one elderly contestant who signed up for magazines stretching until 2086. The subscriber then died, presumably wiser but poorer. His estate is trying...
...otherwise be recognized as unacceptable. It breeds vindictive jealousy at least as often as it does altruism, and it hypocritically presents as selfless what is immensely egotistic. C.S. Lewis writes in the preface to The Screwtape Letters: "In human life we have seen the passion to dominate, almost to digest, one's fellow; to make his whole intellectual and emotional life merely an extension of one's own--to hate one's hatreds and resent one's grievances and indulge one's egoism through him as through oneself. His own store of passion must of course be suppressed to make...
...always seemed peculiar to me when I was in the show, but at the time, I thought it was given that the Pudding would remain all-male. Moreover, I felt that was something the Pudding didn't necessarily have to change. The most difficult thing for me to digest was the Pudding's brutal sense of humor. A firm believer in the power of theatre to present political messages and to change people's lives, I was utterly confused about what signals I was sending. Did the fact that I was a man playing a woman who comically sang about...
...already been labeled brilliant by the likes of conservative icon Norman Podhoretz. The youngest of three sisters from a suburb of Milwaukee, Wis., Shalit first gained national attention in 1995 as a sophomore at Williams College, when she wrote a piece for Commentary (later reprinted in Reader's Digest) attacking the school's coed bathrooms. But her precocity did not necessarily make her Miss Popularity. Her conservative views made her so despised by many on campus that her parents pleaded with her to transfer. Shalit, now a writer living in New York City, also is better known to the cognoscenti...
Sources: Leland's, CNN/Sports Illustrated, Sports Collectors Digest, USA Today, Christie's, Sportsworld...