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...riders dismissed the Olympics as totally lame, an overstuffed competition run by Ice Age fossils who still think that curling is a sport. The best female rider, Tara Dakides, isn't to be found. Yet both the men's and women's halfpipe events have instantly become the premier competition in the X universe. It is, as they say, totally sick. Yes, the X-Games are still way cool, but all those teenager riders and bump skiers will now be pointing toward O, not just...
...former Soviet Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev drew parallels between Russia’s conflict in Chechnya and the United States’ war on terrorism in a speech at Harvard Law School last night...
Eight years after entering politics and almost a year after sweeping back into the Premier's office, Berlusconi is still playing by his own rules. Unlike Bloomberg after his election victory, the Italian Prime Minister has refused to submit his vast holdings - which are valued at $12 billion and also include various publishing, insurance and real-estate enterprises - to the scrutiny of a binding conflict-of-interest watchdog agency. A campaign promise to resolve the issue within 100 days of taking office last spring has come and gone with Berlusconi sitting on it like a bully on the playground...
MTV’s “Dismissed” is cable television’s premier guilty pleasure and the best, raunchiest dating show on the air. So what better way for FM to celebrate Valentine’s Day than by staging our own version of Dismissed? In the game, one lucky guy or gal goes on a date with two potential significant others. Competitors get one “time-out” card to lay on their opponent and then get some time alone (10 minutes, in our version) with their quarry...
Coming out from under the counter, in a manner of speaking, America's premier source of comics news and criticism has gone upscale. "The Comics Journal" has just released the first of its bi-annual coffee-table-style "special editions." (And you had better have a coffee-table too, because this one-foot-square, heavy paper stock book needs surface area and support.) Taking a"McSweeny's"-style approach that puts it on bookshelves rather than into cardboard collector's boxes, this first issue clearly has the intention of broadening the audience for taking comix seriously...