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...course, a little human kindness comes in short supply when things get choppy. Consider a three-day power outage in Georgetown that played havoc with the Monarch's air conditioning over a steamy June weekend. It created textbook examples of good and bad guest behavior. There was the jerk who spent 15 minutes screaming for a cooler room--hey, was that you? The obnoxious one ultimately got what he asked for. But so did the guest who simply requested to be relocated. The only difference was 14 minutes of unpleasantness for everyone in the hotel lobby. "That kind of rudeness...
...they can't help but trigger a gag reflex. Everyone is suspicious of people who write songs between close-ups and mudbaths. Thousands of upstanding citizens spend the best years of their lives trying to take a garage band bigtime and never score a record deal, goes the knee-jerk response, so how can already rich and universally-adored actors feel they have the right to regard music as their sideline? Valid as that complaint may be, a survey of three upcoming records by movie stars reveals that every once in a while celebrity dabblers can excel at making...
...that's a credible mediator in any future revival of the peace process. And right now, the Bush administration is hardly burnishing its image as an "honest broker." Moreover, while it has eschewed President Clinton's hands-on refereeing role, the administration may have defaulted to a knee-jerk support for Israel and enmity towards the Palestinians that will be bad for both Israel...
...Meets World. I went into a clicking rage, giving thumbs up to hockey games, The Man Show, Real Sex, Sex Bytes and any other show with the word sex in it. I was relieved to see Friends drop to No. 17 on TiVo's list of suggestions, while The Jerk...
...next night I came home to find that for some reason, my TiVo now thought I was a stoner, perhaps because of the three thumbs ups I gave to The Jerk. It was planning to tape not only The Secret Life of Ants but also a documentary about termite mounds and a National Geographic Explorer about educating gorillas. I went through three bags of Tostitos during a termite special...