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...filmmakers who know how to entertain, which serves him well at the box office, but puts him at odds with the arthouse crowd, who accuse him of pandering. Never one to stand down from a fight, Eichinger bats the criticism back as a challenge. "Everybody would like to make popular films," he says, barely suppressing a grin. "The question is whether...
Christakis was elected to the Institute of Medicine in 2006, and though he continues research at HMS, the professor continues to teach a popular course at the College, Sociology 190: “Life and Death in the USA: Medicine and Disease in Social Context?...
Senator Dianne Feinstein, the state's most popular politician, has been coy about her intentions regarding the race. She would make a powerful candidate, but others doubt that she would give up her influence in the Senate...
...elimination of term limits in Venezuela could firmly establish a trend that, according to those who oppose such restrictions, will strengthen democracy by allowing voters to decide how long a popular leader can stick around. Term-limit proponents, however, say Chávez's triumph will only carry the region back to its authoritarian past. "What Venezuelan voters decide is their business," says John Walsh, a senior associate at the Washington Office on Latin America, an independent think tank. "But a threshold does seem to have been crossed...
...1980s when Mikhail Gorbachev enforced his alcohol reforms which, among other things, restricted sales to certain stories and prohibited restaurants from serving drinks before 2 p.m. It was a mini-Prohibition and, to get their lips on hooch, people were making alcohol with anything they had. One popular recipe suggested putting yeast, sugar and milk into a washing machine, switching it on a two hour cycle and then distilling the result. In rural Russia, peasants drank heart medication because they believed it contained alcohol...