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...Australia Shark Rampage! Maybe Are there more sharks, more swimmers, or is it all just a coincidence? Three nonfatal attacks in two days sparked panicky headlines in Australia, where shark attacks kill an average of one person a year. (The last fatality was on Dec. 27.) The assaults raised fears that warmer weather and protection policies might be increasing shark populations...
...premise is timely and depressing: everybody lies. (The pilot face-analyzes Dick Cheney, Eliot Spitzer and various notorious celebs to drive home the point; expect a Bernard Madoff reference any episode now.) "The average person tells three lies in 10 minutes of conversation," Lightman crisply informs us, and while Lie to Me balances him with a partner (Kelli Williams) so earnest and sweet that she eats pudding for breakfast, his jaded worldview is borne out. The characters lie for reasons good, evil and poignant; they lie in guilt and in innocence--but in the end, they lie and they...
...Plenty of white or white-sounding actors could say "THIS [pause] is CNN" as well as Jones. Most people who have heard that phrase a hundred times don't know whose voice it is and - unless the question is raised specifically - they aren't even consciously aware that the person is black. They relate to the voice on a subconscious level, and they associate it with power and authority...
Starting Jan. 20, the most powerful person in the world actually will be a black man. Although President Barack Obama is one of the greatest public speakers now practicing that art, he probably couldn't get hired as the anonymous voice-over spokesman for a brand of cereal because he doesn't sound black enough. Nevertheless, he is a beneficiary of this development. When God turned into an African American, it became less unthinkable that the President might be African American as well...
Hail to the Chief TIME's nomination of Barack Obama as Person of the Year was a fitting tribute to a man who achieved the impossible in the land of the free by transcending barriers of race, religion and region to take the mantle of leadership in a country that once again can inspire the rest of the world [Dec. 29]. TIME's presentation of pictures and features on Obama makes him simply the most celebrated man in our time. K. Chidanand Kumar, Bangalore, India...