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...Make that two states. On Thursday, Irish leaders aired outrage over France's illicit extra-time goal, including Prime Minister Brian Cowen, who said he'd personally take the issue up with French President Nicolas Sarkozy the next time they met. During a press conference later Thursday, Sarkozy met Cowen halfway, saying, "I told Brian Cowen how sorry I was" for Ireland's World Cup dreams having been derailed by Henry's actions, but adding that he couldn't intervene in an area that should be off-limits to politics. (See pictures of Sarkozy...
...launched solo into syndication. And she's not done yet: Harpo and Sony just announced that a show hosted by Nate Berkus, her interior designer of choice, will be available in 2010. "She has as good an understanding of media and how it works as anyone I've ever met," says Ken Sunshine, a media consultant who also considers her a friend. "She's very shrewd about it." (See the top 10 Oprah moments...
...Could’ve Been You,” when R. Kelly explains to a potential mate that, “The reason you didn’t get picked / because you got your nose up your ass / You smelling your shit / but tonight you met your match / I’m smelling my shit too now how you like that.” R. Kelly’s humor is infantile without being fun and contrasts terribly with the rest of “Could’ve Been You,” an unforgiving song about lost love...
Similarly, the critique that this is a peculiar gesture or in some way not in keeping with a tradition of diplomacy misses the mark; former President Nixon attempted a similar gesture when he met with an emperor of Japan in 1971, albeit with more success. Nixon certainly had other problems with his presidency, but showing respect to a foreign dignitary was not one of them...
...come to realize, however, that these prurient meditations represent more than the lecherous fantasies of an old man. Early in the novel, Ismael recalls the dire circumstances in which he and his wife first met; in the bus station of a nearby town they both witnessed the shooting of a man by an eleven year-old boy. Rushing nauseated to the lavatory, Ismael walked in on his future wife sitting on the toilet and was instantly transfixed: “… her eyes like lighthouse beams over the hitched up island, the join of her legs, the triangle...