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...quickly that the Borscht Belt is being renamed the Buddhist Belt. And, as with any great American trend that finds its way onto the cover of TIME, many of these meditators are famous. To name just a few: Goldie Hawn, Shania Twain, Heather Graham, Richard Gere and Al Gore, if he still counts as famous...
...Commission in Washington, invited a meditation speaker to give a presentation after 9/11. Roughly half her staff is still at it. Bill Ford, the head of Ford Motors, meditates, as does a former chief of England's top-secret MI-5. Hillary Clinton has talked about meditating, and the Gores are converts. "We both believe in regular prayer, and we often pray together. But meditation--as distinguished from prayer--I highly recommend it," says the man who nearly became our President. Gore's TM mantra is not, as rumored, Florida...
...movie icon Errol Flynn - a natural. But Bloom was actually the last lead to be cast. "We really needed somebody who could hold his own as the love interest-Errol Flynn character, so the audience wouldn't think Keira was going to end up with Johnny Depp," says director Gore Verbinski. Rush, who had also worked on Ned Kelly, suggested Bloom, and Verbinski set up a dinner with him and Knightley. During the meal, Verbinski recalls, "I just kept looking at them across the table and thought, 'This could work.'" It does - on several levels. Bloom and Knightley make...
...article about the prospect of former Vice President Al Gore's launching a liberal alternative to conservative-dominated talk-radio and cable-news forums [MEDIA, June 30], Karen Tumulty identified some of the problems that a liberal would face in trying to compete with the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. My theory about the hosts of conservative talk shows is summed up beautifully by a quote from Bertrand Russell: "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." SCOTT TYSON New York City...
...party is well aware of the controversy a decision to run could cause among liberal and leftwing voters. Green officials bristle at being labeled "spoilers" for siphoning votes away from Democratic nominee Al Gore in 2000. A room full of them at the national committee meeting erupted when an NPR reporter asked why the Patriot Act shouldn't be considered a direct consequence of 2.8 million people voting for Nader. Al Gore's inability to win even his home state of Tennessee was at least as much a factor, one replied - and besides, Gore did win the popular vote...