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...right-wing. You watch the Glass Half Full Channel, I watch the Glass Half Empty Channel and everyone's happy. But we're not Europeans: we can't simply light up a Gauloise, unfold a copy of our partisan newspaper and jadedly admit that bias is inevitable--c'est la guerre! Boy-Scoutishly, we feel this is wrong, cynical, corruptly Old World. We need a fig leaf. Our news must call itself "unfiltered" or "fair and balanced." It must flatter both our world view and our belief in our fairness...
...pound Goffredo possesses a sweet shooting stroke that helped him average 30.0 points per game as a senior at La Crescenta (CA) High School...
...Serge Weinberg, the low-key but firm chief executive of PPR. The pair's departure, if inevitable, was still the most cataclysmic thing to happen to the fashion world since Gianni Versace's murder in 1997. It rocked the luxury-goods business from Madison Avenue to the Place de la Bourse, where PPR shares slumped 5%. And De Sole, 59, not given to public displays, wept as he told his staff the news...
...fall day in 2000, George W. Bush was hard at work on the presidential campaign trail. He spoke to a crowd gathered in La Crosse, Wisc. on the topic of family values: “Families is where our nation finds hope,” Bush maintained, “where wings take dream.” The president’s soaring rhetoric is especially pertinent today, almost three years later, as American families face some of the highest unemployment rates and wage differentials in decades. Whatever he meant to say, it’s hard to imagine Bush...
...Dixie cups and singing along to “L’Chaim,” moviegoers belted out the lyrics, with help from subtitles, to all their favorite songs. It wasn’t just a vocal talent showcase, however. Everyone in the audience also got props, a la Rocky Horror Picture Show audience participation. Highlights included a glow-stick to wave during “The Sabbath Prayer” and “Sunrise, Sunset,” and bubbles to blow during the wedding scene. During “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” a song...