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...porn star who may or may not have told a French magazine that Cruise was his lover. According to the suit, CHAD SLATER, who performs under the name Kyle Bradford, told Actustar that he had "a continuing homosexual affair with Tom Cruise and that this affair was discovered by Mr. Cruise's wife, leading to their divorce." Slater issued a complete denial. "I have never been to France, I have never spoken with Actustar magazine and have never said any of the alleged statements," reads a message on Slater's website. Whoever is at fault, Cruise's lawyer Bert Fields...
...measures to the sisters' autobiographies, Snowdon and Kemper found to their astonishment that the elderly sisters who showed signs of Alzheimer's had consistently authored essays low in both idea density and grammatical complexity a half-century or more earlier. One of the lowest-scoring samples begins: "My father, Mr. L.M. Hallacher, was born in the city of Ross, County Cork, Ireland, and is now a sheet-metal worker in Eau Claire." By contrast, one of the highest-scoring essays conveys the same type of information but in a dramatically different way: "My father is an all-around...
...committee headed out into the field again as the list winnowed. They spoke with other faculty at institutions where possible candidates worked, and then, eventually, Goodheart's office called directly, asking whether Mr. X or Ms. Y would be interested in discussing Harvard University and its future. Again, two or three members, and sometimes even four for the more serious candidates, would arrive at an interviewee's office to talk about Harvard. They would ask the same questions asked at the beginning of the search: How is Harvard perceived? What does it need? Where is higher education going? Who would...
...what about the Kirk Bloodsworths? This ex-Marine was convicted of child molestation and murder by a Maryland court and was sentenced to die, only to then be exonerated by DNA evidence just in time to save his life. And what about the Jerome Livases? Mr. Livas was convicted of murdering two elderly women—despite there being no physical evidence linking him to the crime, despite failing to match the FBI profile of the killer and despite the continuation of similar murders after he was incarcerated (the police wrote them off as “copycat?...
...your PC figured out. The animatronic Homer from Playmates Toys ($50) responds to whatever you're doing with the appropriate bons mots: "D'oh!" for spelling errors, "Whoo-hoo!" for new e-mail. He plugs into the USB port, and you can quiet him down if necessary--handy when Mr. Burns is lurking down the hall...