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...rise. This is cause for concern, of course, but a 1-ft. rise in sea level over the course of a century or more is unlikely to prove fatal. A century, after all, is a long time--long enough to raise sea walls and breakwaters and to adapt in myriad other ways...
...least three times--"I don't know, something like that"--but never married. Instead she spends time with a large group of devoted friends, among them a restaurant critic, a children's-book author, an ex-supporter of Lyndon LaRouche's, a liberal p.r. agent, an actress and myriad bankers. She sees her friends for long dinners with lots of laughter and Ann Coulter stories. One friend has dubbed her "the blond-tressed fascist spellbinder...
...University. Closer to home, each year John Lithgow returns to the College as the Master of Ceremonies for the annual Arts First weekend. As an actor, Lithgow has won a Tony, two Emmys, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe and an American Comedy Award, not to mention myriad nominations, including one for an Oscar for his role in the 1983 movie “Terms of Endearment.” Beyond his awards, Lithgow is also a talented musician, painter, and author...
Boxing right now is punch-drunk legends, venal managers, scheming promoters, calloused writers, hopeless under-cards, injured preliminary boys, several champions per myriad division and one middleweight monster. Also, lately, hectoring medical associations and posturing legislators. Watching a fight like last week's in both horror and appreciation, finding equal wonder in savagery and science, one is amazed and a little ashamed that there has always been a class poor enough for this uncivilized business, this simplest sport or this purest art. What can you call it? Jake LaMotta, still married, called it "the best three rounds of fighting...
...battles in the U.S. intelligence community. One sign of trouble on the horizon: the Defense Department's intelligence chief, Stephen Cambone, is having aides draft a previously undisclosed "charter" for his office that would consolidate his power as the DNI's main point of contact for the Pentagon's myriad intelligence agencies, which consume some 80% of the estimated $40 billion U.S. intelligence budget. The detailed charter appears to extend Cambone's authority over such Pentagon intel units as the eavesdropping National Security Agency and the satellite-snooping National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and potentially over the military's human-intelligence...