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...hardly blame a publisher for wanting to play it safe in these economically treacherous, print-endangered times. But was it really necessary to ape Johnson's motivational manual Who Moved My Cheese? in every way, from its distinctive cover to its format (inspirational parable) to its length (fleeting)? Granted, the author's previous book was a No. 1 blockbuster that sold more than 20 million copies worldwide, but the difference is that his original was far superior: a deceptively simple but ultimately smart lesson on coping with the inevitability of change. Here, the pensées are punier. A confused young...
...first briefing to journalists since being sworn in last week, Panetta reiterated his opposition to the use of torture to extract information from terrorism suspects. He said the Army Field Manual "gives us all the capabilities we need to interrogate." He said he would not personally order any so-called enhanced interrogation techniques used during the Bush Administration. Although the President has the power to authorize such techniques, Panetta said he would not recommend them to Obama...
...emphasis on the importance of charity in Christian life. Catholicism, with 67 million followers in the U.S., is big on formulaic repetition of the Hail Mary and "Our Father" variety. But the Vatican is starting to move away from that and toward, according to the church's Manual of Indulgences, a "greater zeal for the exercise of charity...
...nice fat target for the media to aim at in a market where such uniformity of desire is rare. So while dating and mating instructions are probably as old as Australopithecus (Tip 1: "Stand up straighter"), right now the advice-o-meter is running hot. When a coupling manual turned movie--He's Just Not That Into You--is a box-office hit, something's up. (See pictures of the 20th century's greatest romances...
...City? When Carrie's boyfriend Berger said those six words to Miranda, he liberated her from the expectation that her prospective lover would ever call again. Sex and the City writers Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo then huffed and puffed them into a book-length instructional manual for women. After it became a best seller, there was really no choice but to make it into a movie. It was either that, a line of beauty products or a new religion...