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...only vagrantly attached to news organs, and that once a year they'd get to host a party for the movie stars whose hair they'd dressed or cars they'd parked. Whatever the journalistic provenance of the HFPA members, their ability to commandeer a Sunday night on a major television network (all right, a once-major network: NBC) made the Golden Globe dinner the starriest show around. And that luster helped legitimize the awards and their selectors. (See TIME's list of the top 100 films...
...while the major studios hope for a boost, there are other observers who - glitz and glamour of the Globes aside - question the veracity of the HFPA. Numerous entertainment writers have challenged the group's diversity, its members' qualifications as journalists, and their attentiveness in screening every major contender. There's also the charge that the group votes based on star caliber, and not film quality - celebrating the A-list more than encouraging the B-list. The journalists may be foreign, but the agenda seems strictly Hollywood...
...tensions reflect the fraying European consensus on climate change. Many countries have been wary of the costs that unilateral E.U. action to reduce emissions would entail, arguing that Europe should act only when all of the world's major greenhouse-gas producers make corresponding pledges...
...idea behind it illuminated, with exceptional clarity, the very real possibility that, whatever the truth may be, it may not be what we have been told by the Roman Catholic Church. And this is hardly a minor issue, since the New Testament is the entire basis for all major branches of present-day Christianity. Gerald Andrews, IBIZA, SPAIN...
...greeted with great applause from every political direction.”HIDING FROM THE LIMELIGHTKennedy’s interest in the position comes as a surprise to some who know her as press-shy.Despite the legacy of her father, for whom the Kennedy School and a major campus thoroughfare are named, she spent her undergraduate career at Harvard much like any other student, living in the freshman dorms and even writing a few stories for The Crimson.After graduation, she worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she met her husband Edwin A. Schlossberg, and then received a law degree from...