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...Kelly's career still flourishing? The long-held wisdom is that Americans will forgive any act that's followed by a sincere public apology, but since his brief 1994 marriage to then 15-year-old protégé Aaliyah (her furious parents eventually obtained an annulment), Kelly's lawyers have vetoed any show of contrition. Instead, he has pursued a strategy that is one of the most confounding--and contagious--developments in public life: aggressive shamelessness. It begins with silence in the face of outrage, then blooms into anger (usually at the media), followed by the defiant continuation of the very...
...after a March Boston Globe article broadcasted the long-held stereotype that Harvard undergraduates are less happy than their peers at other elite schools, the number of expanded social options on campus has never been more timely...
...data added fuel to the long-held belief that students at Harvard have less fun than their peers, even those at similarly rigorous schools like Yale...
Students cite the lack of well-established social options—and the highly fractured social scene that comes out of this deficiency—as responsible for student dissatisfaction and the long-held presumption that Harvard undergraduates here have less fun than their peers...
...wake of the 1991 Palmares, when the Jury voted three top prizes (the Palme, Best Director and Best Actor) to the Coen brothers' Barton Fink, the Festival imposed a rule against awarding the same film the Palme and Director prizes. This flies in the face of Cannes' deep and long-held belief that the director is the author of the film. In this Church of Auteurism, the best film must be the work of the best director. But Cannes is at least as political as it is canonical. It wants to make almost everybody happy, to distribute its party favors...