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...frenzy since Simon and Schuster announced last year that he would release a book dishing about closeted gays in the entertainment industry. The catch? The 10-year industry vet doesn't actually reveal names; he instead uses a slew of blind items recounting his run-ins - often intimate - with famous gay men hiding out in the film, television and music worlds. In a time when authors are being unmasked as frauds, some may find Dean's reliance on blind items very convenient. But Dean says that his goal was not to out others, just himself. Blog commenters are far less...
...live and I'm getting married," Sorenstam said. Henin echoed: "This is the end of a child's dream ... It is my life as a woman that starts now." The world has always admired northern European countries for their work-life balance, so we can hardly begrudge a famous Swede for saying she wants to start a family, or the planet's best-known Belgian for simply craving a rest...
...those glorious long sentences are part of the explanation for the slow decay of Milton's reputation. He's not a poet for the sound-bite century. Consider the famous passage from Paradise Lost, describing Eve in Eden, which is one of the culminating exhibits in Smith's celebration of Milton. The 20-line sentence contains 20 proper names: Enna, Prosperin, Dis, Ceres, Daphne, Orontes, Castalian, Nyseian, Triton, Cham, Ammon, Lybian Jove, Amalthea, Bacchus, Rhea, Abassin, Amara, Ethiop, Nilus, Assyrian. How many people nowadays (even among the exceptionally well-educated readers of TIME) know what all those words mean...
...Many who played under Gibson were shattered by his passing. "Jack - he loved his players, he cared about his players," said Peter Sterling, who won three premierships under the master at the Sydney club Parramatta. It was to Sterling that Gibson offered perhaps his most famous piece of advice, at once simple, esoteric and delightfully clever. The coach told the halfback, who'd been kicking poorly, to "kick it to the seagulls" - in other words, to a part of the field that is free of opposition players, to the point where the gulls of a coastal city feel safe settling...
...markets. Since 2001, India has tightened security around government officials and government offices. But in a country of India's size and population, it's impossible to guard against all attacks. "They've attacked India's Silicon Valley, India's commercial capital [Mumbai] and now they've attacked a famous tourist city," says Chellaney. "These targets are being chosen across the length and breadth of India to drive home the message that the country is vulnerable...