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...Loyalty is considered a paramount, honor-among-thieves virtue by political practitioners in both parties. It certainly trumps honesty or creativity. During the Clinton impeachment imbroglio, the Democratic consultant-entertainer James Carville wrote an entire book, titled Stickin', celebrating those who stuck with the boss. But loyalty was a one-way street in the House of Clinton, a royal court where the King and Queen blithely discarded unwanted retainers like used Kleenex. Even Carville's merry band of consultants was tossed after the 1994 congressional-election debacle. As a result, several of those discarded, like George Stephanopoulos, Robert Reich...
...Gunn should give his Project Runway contestants a nifty new assignment: cut up the traditional tuxedo and reconstruct it in a way that looks new. Sounds easier than it is. But in Paris, where cutting skills are paramount in fashion, how to reconstruct formal attire-especially the tux-was the theme of the day on Monday...
...least as much to Europe's self-definition as have, for example, the shifting lines on a map that mark the expansion of the European Union. The frontiers that seem most important at one time shrink into insignificance at another. The demarcation between Western and Eastern Europe took on paramount importance during the cold war, but especially since 2004, when 10 nations, mostly of the old East bloc, joined the E.U., that line seems increasingly less relevant. The end of colonialism, too, has changed what Europe means. On the one hand, European nations have seen an influx of those from...
...acting “like a spoiled child.” Star Jones had a blowout with Barbara Walters after her contract was not renewed on “The View.” Citing Tom Cruise’s odd behavior off the screen, Paramount Pictures owner Sumner Redstone ended the studio’s 14-year relationship with the star. He might not be a celebrity per se, but John Mark Karr certainly made headlines after his shocking confession to accidentally killing Jon Benet Ramsey ten years ago. Apprehended in Bangkok in August, flown first class to Colorado...
...night, on the eve of the fifth 9/11 anniversary, docudrama was dynamite in North America. As millions in the U.S. watched the Clinton Administration botch snuffing out al-Qaeda on the first of ABC TV's two-part miniseries The Path to 9/11, hundreds of Canadians crowded into a Paramount multiplex theater to see the Toronto International Film Festival's world premiere of Death of a President, a sober fakeumentary from Britain's Channel 4 that imagines the assassination of the current President Bush in Chicago on Oct. 19, 2007, and depicts it in footage so persuasive that some viewers...