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What would you say to the standard piece of advice about staying away from talk about religion and politics? I think it's better to go very gently out onto thin ice if you don't know your context. If there's a chance that you may offend, I suggest that religion and politics - religion especially these days - is an arena of conversation that should be entered very gingerly...
...pairs skating short program that was being broadcast on NBC. Every time a skater would stick a landing, he'd yell "Whoa!" at the television. At one point, he looked up at his mother and said, "This is so much fun." After hearing that story, I realized he was onto something. When a man summons the strength to lift a woman and throw her in the air while gliding across the ice, that's an amazing athletic achievement. When the woman spins around and lands gracefully on her razor-thin blades, as fluid as a diver entering the water without...
...most indispensable, go to YouTube and watch her perform "Horses/Hey Joe," a medley that peaks with the immortal directive "Go, Rimbaud! Do the Watusi!" Rimbaud? Watusi? Yes! Anybody who sees the link between the most delirious of French poets and the dumbest of '60s dance crazes is onto something...
...After Olympic officials raised the flags for Mexico, Azerbaijan, Denmark and Great Britain, actress Sandra Oh - a Canadian and star of Grey's Anatomy who was emceeing the event - invited the athletes onto the stage for a festive dance. "We are celebrating you, the youth of the world!" screamed the overcaffeinated star. One problem, Sandra, von Hohenlohe of Mexico is no youth - he turned 51 two weeks ago.(Watch a video of Olympic athletes training...
Frederick A. Laskey, MWRA executive director, said that “human error” in the configuration of the facility’s valves caused a tank to be overpressurized, resulting in fuel going through the vent of the facility. The fuel spilled first onto the roof, then onto the driveway, and eventually into the Charles...