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...keeping it well hidden. Nicolas Sarkozy has successfully fought off all his potential rivals to emerge as the candidate of a fractious right. Until recently, his campaign motif was "rupture." As a slogan, it suggests corrective action, but exactly what it might mean in practice is anyone's guess; Sarkozy isn't saying. Lately, his advisers have warned Sarkozy that rupture doesn't play well in a country where change is a word viewed with deep suspicion. So he's softening the line. He made a speech the other day in Périgueux, praising French bureaucrats and saying that...
...Hostel, tend to begin with young people having sex-play, then kill them off. Hostel, whose first 40 mins. are a-groan with luscious young women, eventually turns to more esoteric issues. Like, what to do with a dangling eyeball that's been yanked from its socket? You might guess: push it back in. But Hostel says: snip it off. (The wound bleeds bisque.) A TIME movie critic in the '70s coined the word "carnography" to describe splatter films that were the violent equivalent of pornography. In Hostel or Saw, the big body-piercing torture scenes are the come shots...
...surgery who will work for any salary - some would literally pay to do it. They can derive satisfaction from little else, their self-concept is utterly enmeshed in it and doctor's children or not, they will be doctors in the next generation. Today they make up, by my guess, about 10% of us. Wish them well for they will be the only ones to take care of us if we have a hard problem when...
...sessions, they couldn’t do one here,” Hinkle says. Katzenbach offered to organize the session for the Brattle, which was advertised both to arts groups on campus and to potential consultants. It was an informal recruiting session, in a way. “I guess in some ways it’s sort of like an audition for [Katzenbach],” Hinkle says. Gretchen Anderson, who leads Katzenbach’s non-profit consulting efforts, says such arrangements are not uncommon. “We have committed as a firm to doing a certain...
...said that because straight relationships ?are all too often casual or temporary? and can lead to children born out of wedlock, the state needed to help straights by maintaining an exclusive, all-heterosexual club called marriage. Straight people used to be obsessed with the dangers of gay bathhouses; I guess sports bars and hetero dating sites are now the real dangers to society...