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Panamanians take justifiable pride in their operation of the Panama Canal. Since the U.S. handed the famous waterway over to Panama nine years ago, the independent Panama Canal Authority (ACP) has run it more efficiently, more safely and more profitably than the Americans did. Too bad, most Panamanians say, that their government is still best known for the kind of corruption and waste that has marred the small Central American country's reputation ever since pirates haunted the Caribbean. If they could just run the nation the way they run the canal, Panamanians believe, they could become a world-class...
...which are the very sins of flirtation and desertion McConaughey has displayed in the movies that made him famous: How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days and Fool's Gold, both with Kate Hudson; The Wedding Planner, with Jennifer Lopez; Failure to Launch, with Sarah Jessica Parker. These fluffy films earned no awards, no critics' raves - nothing but healthy box-office numbers; How to Lose a Guy broke $100 million domestic. So somebody must love McConaughey. In Ghosts, one woman says of him, "He's all surface," and another observes, "But a really hot surface." That surface has made...
...birthed out of Arts First.” Though the girls are set to play as the Rod Stewart Tribute Band, the three Canaday residents have adopted the band name Captain and Captain and Captain and Tennille based on the American pop music duo made famous by chart-toppers like “Muskrat Love” and “Love Will Keep Us Together.” According to the band, “It came out of Anna buying three captain hats on Ebay and then making a multimedia piece based on the one-hit wonder...
...spends the summer at what Tischfield calls “the Harvard of ceramics” in Jingdezhen, China. He has received a fellowship to study in Jingdezhen, a village of 325,000 craftsmen and artists built on the site of a 2000-year-old porcelain-producing factory famous for its tradition of flawless pottery. “Ceramics is something I’m always going to do,” Tischfield says. “I’m definitely going to have a kiln in my backyard. I can totally see myself doing what my neighbor did?...
...City Movie”)? Now that we have Evite and Paperless Post, what will happen to attractive handwriting? Maybe someday we can read (from our Kindles) “The Collected emails, Myspace comments, Tweets, and online message board comments of Some Famous Author.”For those still holding out on me, here’s one last thing to think about: You’re sitting with your Kindle in a forest that you might have saved by buying your Kindle. You are near the end of a classic with a surprising ending—say Hemingway?...