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CORRECTION: The March 13 article "Sports Illustrated Stripped from Rack" gave incorrect titles for Sean H. Crawford and Anne M. Frankel. Their correct titles are Library Assistant and Serials/End-Processing Assistant, respectively...
Bill Maher became famous for his irreverent-bordering-on-outrageous approach to current issues. His first television show, Politically Incorrect, derived entertainment value from getting celebrities to talk about politics (whether they knew anything or not) and purposely pitting against each other representatives of completely opposite points of view. Fourteen years later, such programming stunts are the purview of Fox News, and Maher is conducting a surprisingly high-minded conversation on his HBO show, Real Time, now in its fifth season. He still mixes celebrity with punditry, but guests come from the Meet the Press side of the ledger...
...Other people have picked up on the idea of booking a snake and a mongoose. On Real Time, it's more like a real conversation. And, honestly, it started because I noticed that on Politically Incorrect, the more interesting things were said after the show, because the guests didn't feel the pressure to shout at each other...
...disappointed to read the comments published in the February 6 issue of The Harvard Crimson, since they are not only incorrect, but cast negative light on areas in which Nestlé has put much effort and made significant advance...
...restaurants stayed open later. "Nobody asked us if we were Shi'ite or Sunni," says al-Shammari. "And we never thought to ask each other. I have friends I didn't know were Shi'ite until quite recently." Among the urban educated classes, it was considered unsophisticated and politically incorrect to ask people their sect, though there are other ways to find out (see box). Some of the people mentioned in this article agreed to be interviewed only if their names were changed. Many of Iraq's tribes have always included clans from both sects. Sunni-Shi'ite marriages were...