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...incidentally, just finished a six-month jail stretch for battery. The brothers aren't speaking. "Why would I have to be concerned about my brother's thoughts or feelings?" asks Roger during a Mayweather workout in Las Vegas. He is wearing a T shirt with Sesame Street characters, except Bert is chugging a 40-oz. beer, Oscar is flipping the bird and Big Bird is smoking. The shirt reads: DONTMESSWITME STREET...
THEY MAY MAKE THE WRONG KINDS OF headlines now and again, but actors are mostly like the rest of ordinary us--except that they can pretend to be extraordinary, in ways nice or naughty. "Movies are the only chance you get to be a villain," Dinklage says. "You don't want to walk down the street and be a villain. But on film you can get away with...
...starting to pay off. She's currently third on the 2007 LPGA money list, with $432,833, after winning the Kraft Nabisco Championship this month, becoming the youngest woman, at 18, to take a golf major. Uncle Aaron holds the same record in men's pro tennis, except he was 16. "Aaron was so excited for me, and that was cute to see," says Pressel. With her ranking skyrocketing to fourth in the world, Pressel is on the cusp of greatness...
...panelists told the crowd of more than 150 that ways to make a difference in the area included putting an end to greyhound racing, eating meat, and cosmetic testing. Sunstein also recommended that hunting be banned if “there isn’t any other purpose except for sport or game.” “Scientists are exempted from cruelty laws, and in hunting, hunters are almost always excluded from anti-cruelty laws,” Sunstein said. Animal cruelty laws show that there is a consensus among the public that animals should not be subjected...
...uninitiated who aren’t hip enough to already have an “avatar,” and whose personal assets don’t include Linden dollars, let me introduce you to Second Life (SL), an alternate cyber-world, more or less like our own, except that its inhabitants can fly and teleport...