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...feeds you? Country is the soundtrack of America—at least for the proud 32 percent of us who stand behind our President. I still use Toby Keith’s “Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American)” to drown out Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) when watching the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship on C-SPAN. When Mr. Keith growls, “We’ll put a boot up your ass/It’s the American way,” I can?...
...aestheticizing it, that makes it more acceptable and worthy of recognition.” The problem with films like “Apocalypto” (and its forerunner, “The Passion of the Christ”) is that although they try to be serious, they invariably drown in the ‘aesthetics of violence’ and forget to explain the motivation or relevance for the violence...
...Indeed, Stevens doesn't hide the fact that he is trying to drown the conspiracy theories that have swirled around Diana's death in a sea of boring fact. "I know this report will be subject to greater scrutiny than anything I have done before," he said, "and people may continue to raise issues - it is inevitable. But we believe that the public should have the opportunity to view the investigation in its entirety. This will allow for properly informed debate about the evidence rather than discussions based on theory and speculation...
...Sunstein earns his living researching how misplaced fears skewer our ability to assess risk, so he figured himself the last person to fall into the same trap. But when his teenage daughter planned a long-distance swim last summer, Sunstein found himself dwelling on the remote possibility she would drown. "It's crazy," says Sunstein, a University of Chicago law professor specializing in risk regulation. "But I couldn't counteract my brain's rapid, intuitive emotional system for evaluating risk...
...cover of Otis Redding's Respect, a song that, released in the midst of the racial and sexual tumult of 1967, meant so much to so many people. It remains her signature anthem--and for good reason--though its overexposure means that her versions of Ray Charles' Drown in My Own Tears and Sam Cooke's A Change Is Gonna Come and her emotionally delicate performance of Do Right Woman--Do Right Man are criminally overlooked...