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...Millions of honest and hardworking Italians have to fight a daily battle against the arrogant and corrupt ruling class just to keep their heads above water. While the Italian population is getting progressively poorer, the local and central misruling class is getting richer and more arrogant and behaving as though it is above the law, while demanding more money from taxpayers. Italians are fed up, but it seems impossible to get rid of this crooked ruling class. Thank you, TIME, for verbalizing what millions of us feel and would like to see reported by Italian newspapers and television. Arturo Abbiati...
...Today, four decades after the youthquake's transformation of the culture, most baby-boomer women have held on to the hedonistic forever-young part of their Woodstock dreams a lot more tenaciously than to the open-and-honest part. And in doing so, they have presided over a narrowing of the range of acceptable looks for women. Women may be CEOs, Cabinet officers and TV-news anchors and may openly indulge their sexual appetites - but only if they appear eternally youthful. And a main requirement is a hair color other than gray or white...
...Match.com-ers in New York City, Chicago and - most shocking of all - Los Angeles, three times as many men were interested in going out with me when my hair was gray as when it was dyed. This blew my mind. Maybe the men sensed that if I was being honest about the color of my hair, I'd be more accessible and easier to date. Or maybe the gray made me stand out from the overwhelming majority of Match.com women my age who color their hair...
...fired. An ex--New York Knick, he coached teams including the Detroit Pistons, the Phoenix Suns and Bill Bradley's Princeton squad--and treasured teamwork and unselfishness above all. "Life isn't much different than [basketball]," he once said. "If it's run right, with precision, with good, honest effort, it's a thing of beauty...
...majority of blockbusters, and rarely am I hit with a new idea, something that makes me dream and sigh right in the middle of a mouthful of popcorn. Like the women quoted in the article, I have turned to the classics to fulfill my need for good, honest romance, be it far-fetched or not. I do hope that somehow Hollywood will come up with ways to appeal to the masses once again, not just to the guys who need bathroom jokes to think a "chick flick" is worthwhile...