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...TAKERU (TSUNAMI) KOBAYASHI, 26, title of world hot-dog-eating champion; by gulping down 53-and-a-half hot dogs in 12 minutes; in New York City. Kobayashi broke his own 2002 record by three hot dogs in his fourth consecutive victory at the annual July 4 wiener-eating contest organized by the legendary hot-dog stand Nathan...
...cares if it's just fluff? This summer positively purrs with kitty cinema. In Catwoman, due July 23, a vengeance-seeking HALLE BERRY uses her feline powers to whip an evil cosmetics company into shape. An Oscar winner in a shredded-leather suit? Dog people of the world, surrender...
...things like, “I don’t associate the American people with what the American government does.” Once I switch off the camera their rhetoric changes. Kids ask me if I love Israel, old women call me ibn al-kilab (son of a dog) and men from Hezbollah tell my friend that all Americans should have their necks broken. Hope in the eye of the camera surrenders to a looming shadow of hate once I stop recording. And I haven’t even gotten the worst of it. My friend Mohamad...
...superpower, it will be their choice, not ours. As soon as they're as rich as we are, it is their choice, not ours. So I think we should be trying to create a world we would like to live in even if we're not the only big dog on the block...
...selling around 3.5 million copies in 24 languages. Now, at 49, he's just getting around to publishing the follow-up, Birds Without Wings (Secker & Warburg). What has he done in the intervening decade? A few short stories, a biblical preface, and a lame children's novella called Red Dog. With his fans clamoring for more of the same, and detractors eager to prove him a one-hit wonder, it's little surprise that he told a reporter in April 2001 that writing after Corelli was like "being stood stark naked in Trafalgar Square and being told...