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LOST IN THE HUBBUB OVER Zinédine Zidane's World Cup-- final head butt was a classic finish in the semis. Minutes before the match between Italy and host country Germany was headed for penalty shots, Italy's Fabio Grosso took a gorgeous pass from Andrea Pirlo and curled it by the German goalkeeper, putting Italy up 1-0 (it added another goal two minutes later). Italy beat France in the final, giving the Azzurri their fourth World...
...panic didn't quite approach that created by Orson Welles' War of the Worlds - acknowledged as the model for the Belgian prank - but more than 30,000 phone calls flooded the broadcaster's switchboard, and the channel's website crashed as concerned viewers sought confirmation. The reason for the hubbub, of course, is that although the events described in the fake "news" broadcast had more than a dash of melodrama, they were eminently believable...
...What the current hubbub over political lying ignores or drowns out is the fact that there are disabling truths, messy realities that positively stymie adequate response unless their particulars are reduced to deceptive simplicities. Every sentient human being knows this from daily experience ... Constantly hearing the truth, the cold, hard, brutal unsparing truth, from spouses, relatives, friends and colleagues is not a pleasant prospect. 'Human kind,' as T.S. Eliot wrote, 'cannot bear very much reality.' TRUTH TELLING MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR PEOPLE TO COEXIST; A LITTLE LYING MAKES SUCH SOCIETY TOLERABLE. At what point does 'a little' become 'too much...
...authors noted that despite national hubbub over Medicare’s prescription drug benefits, it ranked a distant third with only 15 percent citing it among their top two concerns...
Despite the hubbub, Mayer seems remarkably laid-back, expressing few qualms about the realization of his script on-stage. “[The director is] a graduate of the Yale School of Drama, so I trust him,” said Mayer. (In addition to directing VSA productions, Michnewicz is also the co-founder of Theater Alliance, a small but well-renowned Washington theater company.) “I’ve liked his suggestions, and I’m just happy it’s being produced...