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...these days America's cowboys seem a bit small in the saddle. Those cattle they round up have become politically incorrect: for many, meat is an obscene cuisine. It's not just the additives and ailments connected with the consumption of beef, though a dish of hormones, E. coli bacteria or the scary specter of mad-cow disease might be effective enough as an appetite suppressant. It's that more and more Americans, particularly young Americans, have started engaging in a practice that would once have shocked their parents. They are eating their vegetables. Also their grains and sprouts. Some...
Silvio Berlusconi's government has turned the gaffe into something of an art form. Since taking office 13 months ago, the Prime Minister and his key officials have managed to make rude or politically incorrect remarks about everything from the euro to Islamic civilization. One of their baldest blunders came last week from Interior Minister Claudio Scajola, 54, who was pressured to resign after two newspaper reporters quoted him referring to Marco Biagi - a labor ministry adviser assassinated in March by the Red Brigades terrorist group - as a "pain in the ass." Scajola, under fire for not having provided Biagi...
...Martin Kilson seems to think that all of America has the same view of this term. This view is palpably incorrect,” he said. “How does he know what my motive...
...Oprah announcing plans to go, there is a niche for an overweight talk-show host only I could fill." This is how JIMMY KIMMEL explains the news last week that in January he will take over the midnight time slot on ABC now occupied by Bill Maher and Politically Incorrect. Kimmel, who co-hosts the Comedy Central fratfest The Man Show, has not yet figured out the format of his new program, which will follow Nightline, but chances are it won't include one Man Show staple: underattired women jumping on trampolines. "Barbara Walters refused to go on a trampoline...
...same time, it is incorrect to say autistic people are cold and indifferent to those around them or, as conventional wisdom once had it, lack the high-level trait known as empathy. Last December, when Pam Barrett felt overwhelmed and dissolved into tears, it was Danny, the most deeply autistic of her children, who rushed to her side and rocked her back and forth in his arms...