Word: jon
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...Jon • Republican strategy of rooting for Obama's stimulus package to fail in order to be able to triumphantly crow "we told you so" is revealed...
Festivalgoers empathized in Telluride and Toronto. Critics, then art-house fans, then the mall rats, cheered it throughout North America. The title has entered pop culture, with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show referring to Rod Blagojevich, the mop-top governor of Illinois, as "Scumdog Million-hairs." Now Hollywood's élite has joined the chorus. And our industry savant doesn't believe the negative press from India will hurt Slumdog's Oscar chances. Slumdog, he says, "will win everything of substance...
...medical care in "Quintland," a hospital that essentially doubled as a government-run theme park. Born in Ontario to a pair of devout Catholics (who had, and would produce, several additional children), the Dionne quintuplets were an immediate media sensation, a Depression-era precursor to today's Octomoms and Jon and Kates. Two months premature, weighing about 2 lb. each, Cecile, Annette, Yvonne, Marie and Emilie were quickly made wards of the state by authorities, who feared that their father would exploit them for his own financial benefit. Then, in a supreme irony, the quints were...
...rarity, multiple births carry a nostalgic whiff of the idea of a big, sprawling family at a time when the American nuclear family is largely shrinking. Shows like TLC's Duggar's Big Family Album, on which an Arkansas couple flaunts their 17 (!) children, or the same network's Jon & Kate Plus 8 (more like Jon & Kate Plus 8 Plus The People They're Reportedly Having Affairs With) sell the idea of multiples as special. In the case of Jon and Kate Gosselin, who gave birth to a set of twins and a set of sextuplets, they were doubly blessed...
When asked if he was referring to Palm, Cook said he didn't "want to talk about any specific company." However, Jon Rubinstein, a former Apple star who oversaw the iPod division, went to Palm last summer to spearhead The Pre project, and it's well known in the Valley that the defection rankled Apple...