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...focused, and rightfully so, on the terrifying prospect of how a nuclear Ahmadinejad regime might attempt to “Islamize” the rest of us and wipe certain unfavorable countries “off the map,” we must not let his booming threats drown out the pleas of the Iranian people, and Iranian women especially. In a recent column, Iranian journalist Amir Taheri quotes feminist Haydeh Karimi who implores, “Free people everywhere should speak out in support of Iranian women.” Indeed, thousands showed up for a protest organized...
...Adam,” but it is tastefully muted. The painting is huge, the figures of the women are huge, the colors are huge, and yet in this piece, Wein utilizes a sense of restraint that allows his brush-strokes to meld together rather than drown in each other. In “Albert Wein: American Modernist,” the artist’s versatility, not only in the media he chose but also in the style of the images he presented, comes to the forefront. At his best, Wein manages to blend everything together to create a tempered...
...Doing TV - first on CNN with Tucker Carlson, then exclusively on MSNBC - Maddow at first showed jitters. She didn't look comfortable with the ludicrous compression of arguments, the need to drown out other guests to get a point across. The casual-garbed Maddow also felt awkward having to "dress like a Senator" on TV. But as her radio work proved, Maddow's a quick study. She got on top of the medium quickly. Certainly the MSNBC brass thinks so. Otherwise they wouldn't have dumped Dan Abrams' The Verdict to make room...
...economist. In fact, he designs video games for a living. Wright is the inventor of The Sims, the revolutionary game in which actual humans control the lives of little simulated humans, making them go to work or fall in love or swim around in virtual swimming pools till they drown. The Sims is the best-selling computer game of all time. Among game designers, Wright is considered a living god. Now he wants to make...
...cope, Emmons can take comfort in history. Last time around, a big plus emerged from the pileup: he lost the gold but won the girl. After collapsing in Athens, Emmons retreated to a bar with his buddies. He needed to drown his sorrows. A Czech shooter, Katerina Kurkova, came up to Emmons to offer condolences. "The way he handled that loss seemed very cool to me," Katerina, 24, says. "And I'm not blind. He's pretty cute." They started spending more time together on the shooting circuit and got married last summer...