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...Franken Decade--now there's a label I can follow. Al Franken works beyond all the fuss turning our small world into the some model of all time. He's comfortable with a personal history as the categorization of his life...
After the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded its 1979 investigation of the death of John F. Kennedy, its files were stored away in 848 cartons deep within the National Archives. Most were supposed to remain sealed there until the year 2009. But as a result of the fuss created by Oliver Stone's film JFK, researchers may be able to sift through the boxes much sooner. Ohio Congressman Louis Stokes, the Democrat who chaired the committee, pledged last week to push a House resolution lifting the 30-year secrecy rule...
...contempt for modern feminists. Paglia writes with freshness and blithe arrogance, and she does not hesitate to hurl brazen insults. She accuses author Germaine Greer, for example, of becoming "a drone in three years," sated with early success. Susan Sontag is another victim of celebrity. Princeton feminist Diana Fuss's output is "just junk -- appalling...
...committee worked with United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, with Anderson's sister Peggy Say and with the State Department and other groups in the U.S. and Britain. It was not always easy to know what was best. "Our dilemma was that if we made a big fuss about Terry, the argument could be made that it would prolong his ordeal by increasing his value in the eyes of his captors," David recalls. "On the other hand, if we didn't make a fuss, that would contribute to poor morale on the part of Terry and the other...
...years since Coco Chanel's bronzed mannequins helped make the perfect tan a symbol of leisure and affluence, a well-browned body seems to have joined the pantheon of inalienable human entitlements, right there alongside life, liberty and the pursuit of good TV reception. How else to explain the fuss made last week in the prestigious Journal of the American Medical Association about the newest way to achieve that sun-kissed look: by injection...