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...just knocking on a table. Listeners correctly named about 2.5% of the songs--but the tappers predicted they'd get about half right. When you hear a tune in your head, it's tough to put yourself in the position of a person who doesn't. To a large extent, the framework the Heaths lay out is a step-by-step guide for getting around that Curse, a how-to for anyone with good ideas who wants to captivate an audience, whether they want to lose weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Change Agents: Are You Sticky? | 10/29/2006 | See Source »

...extent of the corruption purge thus far may mean Hu has overpowered Jiang Zemin and his allies. But it could also mean that the two leaders have reached a truce, a negotiated a consensus between factions whose differences may have been more about personal loyalties than they are about political philosophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beijing's Corruption Purge May Serve Political Ends | 10/28/2006 | See Source »

...extent of the overlap between Ogletree and Brooks is significantly less than the parallel between Ogletree’s book and Yale law professor Jack M. Balkin’s 2001 collection of essays, “What Brown v. Board of Education Should Have Said...

Author: By Paras D. Bhayani, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: More Similarities in Law Prof's Book | 10/27/2006 | See Source »

...subsequent apology Streisand pretentiously told us that the artist’s role is “to disturb.” While this is true to some extent (Streisand’s behavior has certainly seemed disturbing to me for a number of years), actors and singers should realize that political advocacy should not be their primary focus. Politics should be left to politicians, not to singers, and if an entertainer does feel the need to opine, it should be done with as much tact as possible...

Author: By Charles R. Drummond iv | Title: Unfunny Girl | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

...Iran may also be encouraged by the limited form of sanctions adopted against North Korea, and the diplomatic battle it took to win agreement on those. Already, there are clear signs of disagreement in the Council over the extent of sanctions to pursue against Iran. China and Russia remain skeptical of their value in resolving the issue, and Moscow has rejected as too harsh a European Union draft resolution - which has also been criticized by the U.S. for being insufficiently harsh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the Sanctions Threat Doesn't Scare Iran | 10/25/2006 | See Source »

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