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...more should we stop speaking when we realize our geekiness is on display. To help others, I’ll reveal one of my geek-tivities. I am…a Sherlock Holmes connoisseur. I have every Holmes tale as well as books dissecting these stories. But the pi??ce de résistance of my obsession is a small four-inch bronze bust of Holmes which gazes down from my shelf, reminding me to think critically about situations. Before you laugh, remember the weight that will be lifted when you finally embrace your geekdom. And until society...
Atom Egoyan’s “Where the Truth Lies” may be based on a novel by Rupert Holmes, who is best known for penning “Escape (The Pi??a Colada Song),” but, contrary to expectations, the film is not about pi??a coladas and getting caught in the rain so much as pill overdoses and getting found dead in a bathtub.From the opening shot (pan across a bathroom, ominous music, an overly-loving close-up of a naked woman drowned in a bathtub), “Where...
...website. There was Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman declaring that it was not Plame or Wilson but Rove who was the victim of "blatant partisan political attacks." There was White House spokesman Scott McClellan, who had once called the notion that Rove was involved "ridiculous," looking like a pi??ata as he refused again and again in long and painful press conferences to comment on the implications of Rove's being a source for reporters. President Bush, who had vowed to fire anyone in his Administration who turned out to have leaked the name of Wilson's wife...
...Febres Cordero ordered the renegade officer to surrender, then went on television to deliver an ultimatum: either Vargas surrender or government troops would move in. The President later sent a personal secretary to negotiate with Vargas. While the three-hour meeting was in progress, the Defense Ministry announced that Pi??eiros and Albuja had resigned...
...ecstatic Vargas promptly flew to the port city of Guayaquil. Said he: "I am at your orders, Mr. President." The general was placed in custody and then held at the Mariscal Sucre Air Base outside the capital. The government, meanwhile, was vague about whether Pi??eiros and Albuja had actually left their posts. That prompted sympathetic officers at the air base to free Vargas, who declared that he had been double-crossed by the President. Thus began a second rebellion. Vargas threatened to march on the presidential palace. Before a cheering audience of 600 supporters outside the air base...