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Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn admits he's nervous. His company just launched its most important car in years, the redesigned 2007 Altima sedan. The model it's replacing was one of the best-selling cars in 2005, a monster hit for Nissan, and Ghosn has no idea if the latest edition will fare as well. "We have so many new products," he told TIME in an interview in New York City, "that it's a very tense period...
...gene specifies all that complicated stuff that animals know how to do,” Kravitz said. “There’s so little known about how complex behaviors”—like aggression—“get wired into the nervous system...
...homosexuality, seems to have been fibbing. In particular, he sparked some confusion late last month when a former male escort, Mike Jones of Denver, accused Haggard of having solicited sexual relations and narcotics from him multiple times over a three year period. Haggard, after a bit of denial, some nervous laughter and a few calls of “election year politics,” then publicly admitted that he was indeed “a deceiver and a liar” and guilty of “sexual immorality...
...Pope's original invitation came in 2005, from the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which represents a nervous 0.01% of the country's population. The Turkish government, miffed that as a Cardinal, Joseph Ratzinger had opposed Turkey's urgent bid to join the European Union, finally issued its own belated offer for 2006. But even now, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has discovered a previous engagement that will take him out of the country while Benedict is in it. Although modest, sales of a Turkish novel subtitled Who Will Kill the Pope in Istanbul? (the book fingers...
...problems here. First of all, Tom Everett Scott, as the actor, doesn't for one moment convince us he's any manner of Hollywood star: no bearing, no ego, so nervous about his sexual encounter that he might be a middle-aged Neil Simon garment worker having his first fling with a hooker. The playwright (and director, Scott Ellis) want to be both naughty and cool. There's utterly no passion, not to mention plausibility, in this relationship. (Deadpan exchange: "Let's get started." "OK, I'll get aroused...