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...Virgin” pushes the limits of reality, but the humor grows from credible origins. When Andy gets his chest waxed—one of the popular preview scenes—Carell goes the extra mile by actually having his own chest waxed. From the redness on his chest to his screams of pain, not to mention the sympathetic looks combined with laughter of the other men, we are seeing a true (that is to say, real) hilarious moment...
...Meanwhile, at AOL and MSN ? AOL has launched a preview of its new free Web portal, featuring a good video search that has already indexed more than 1 million video clips ? Later this summer, MSN will debut its Virtual Earth feature, which will compete with Google Earth and offer even more detailed images. Its new search page, search.msn.com, has a "local search" feature and is increasingly powerful and easy...
...launched a preview of its new free Web portal, featuring a good video search that has already indexed more than 1 million video clips...
...much closer historians are coming these days to demystifying the Civil War President, both by humanizing him and by delineating his exceptional talents. Shenk's forthcoming book, Lincoln's Melancholy, focuses on how depression simultaneously challenged Lincoln and made him stronger. Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin offers us a preview of her forthcoming work on Lincoln's political genius by showing how different aspects of Lincoln's deep emotional intelligence made him a highly effective leader. Lincoln scholar Douglas L. Wilson probes the sources of Lincoln's rhetorical powers; Harvard professor John Stauffer focuses on Lincoln's surprising relationship with another...
...matters of economic organization, however, even Lenin was a backslider of sorts. In 1921, when his "war Communism" stirred dangerously strong opposition, he shifted to the New Economic Policy, which sounds almost like a preview of Deng's reforms. Under the N.E.P., the new Soviet state owned and operated only what Lenin called the "commanding heights" of the economy, that is, the basic industries. Peasants could grow and sell privately what they wished after paying a tax in produce to the state; small-scale private enterprise was permitted; foreign capital was invited...