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Phrases like economic boom and world's tallest skyscraper help draw millions of visitors to Dubai each year. But for many seasoned travelers, they make a trip to the city-state sound as alluring as a holiday in Hell. Dubai's breathless p.r. machine neglects to mention the construction din, monstrous traffic jams, and overpriced chain hotels that blast synthetic music by the pool...
Arnold didn't mention any funnyman in particular. He didn't have to. In an essay six years earlier, he had already attacked by name the most famous American funnyman of all, Mark Twain. His humor, Arnold sniffed, was "so attractive to the Philistine." It would be truer to say it was attractive to anyone who valued plain speaking and the kind of deadly wit that could cut through the cant and hypocrisy surrounding any topic, no matter how sensitive: war, sex, religion, even race. Twain was righteous without being pious, angry for all the right reasons and funny...
...stadiums. And although there were some incidents, the massed fans focused on the football, and the absolutely zany weather, such as the freak and violent storm in Vienna that literally scattered supporters to the winds. Expect Emotion, the slogan said, and on that EURO 2008 delivered. There was no mention of hurricanes...
...worth, Millar says he dreamed up the story when he was a kid.) But the notion of an ordinary, frustrated young person who discovers special powers in strange surroundings is as old as The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and, before that, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland - not to mention every fable about a commoner revealed as having royal blood and reserves of derring-do. It's the essential wish-fulfillment template: start in drab, constricting reality; hyper-drive into heroism...
...wounds from a fight like this one don't vanish overnight. Former President Jimmy Carter still bristles at the mention of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, who challenged Carter in 1980, fought to the end and - at least in Carter's version of events - cost him a second term. That's 28 years. This one hasn't been over for 28 days...