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...Kong government tried to introduce a draconian antisubversion law, half a million people took to the streets. In an attempt to quell the dissent, Beijing allowed the law to be shelved. But many Hong Kongers responded by demanding the direct election of their Chief Executive?currently chosen by a narrow, pro-Beijing electoral college?by 2007, the earliest date allowed by the territory's constitution...
...ever want to take the integrity out of movies; it's that I want to put the integrity into them." Still, his measure of a film's success seems based entirely upon box-office returns, and he views the inbred Academy Award nominations as "almost an affirmation." Such narrow-minded arrogance leaves one with the impression that what really pleases Weinstein is the ability to speak about himself and his "pals Sean Penn and Russell Crowe and Johnny Depp." How inspiring! Johannes Climatus Copenhagen...
...skinny leg is in. Designers like Dolce & Gabbana and Ralph Lauren are waving goodbye to the slouchy, oversized look; it's hello to pencil-thin suits straight out of a 1960s movie. Even at mass-market retail stores like H&M and Gap, the new style for spring is narrow jeans cropped at the ankle. The move toward the straight and narrow was launched in large part by Browne, 38, who favors what he calls the Congressman suit - the lean look favored by John Kennedy when he was a junior Senator. Browne's $2,800 suits feature skinny flat-front...
...usual, Bush’s rhetoric in the Feb. 24 speech did not go far beyond reiterating empty allusions to his narrow perception of the United States’ “cultural, religious and natural roots.” By this he refers to the cultural hegemony of an Anglo-Saxon, Protestant conservatism. Allowing same-sex couples the right to enter into civil marriage in the United States does not, however, impinge in any way on the cultural or religious freedoms that Bush claims to protect. Instead, it affords bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender (BGLT) people a legal status...
...true: Without strong first impressions and healthy doses of interpersonal irrationality, life would be fairly lackluster. But living with stubbornly held opinions of others is like wearing super-dark glasses: It doesn’t just make life monotonous, it also turns us into nearly blind, narrow-minded people. I say, if it’s worth watching a good movie twice, it’s worth living off our second impressions...