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What do you think might surprise readers? Probably the role of government as mass poisoners during prohibition. I kept going, "Whoa." I didn't realize that had happened. How come that isn't public knowledge...
Each year, Academy Awards season stirs the film industry with the titillating prospect of taking home an Oscar. As far as the general public is concerned, there are, of course, a few big deal categories—Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director—while projects of less length generally get less pre-game hype. However, this certainly does not mean that they are any less entertaining or interesting—even if they are of the animated variety, even if they’re nearly all about the elderly. The Institute of Contemporary Art will...
...Public schools in France are overcrowded, rigid and hierarchical. And parents, who are never addressed by their first names, are strongly discouraged from entering school buildings, let alone the classrooms. I cannot tell you what my child learns, paints or builds on any given school day. But I do know that on Feb. 4, he ate hake in Basque sauce, mashed pumpkin, cracked rice, Edam cheese and organic fruits for lunch. That meant stuffed marrows and apples for dinner. The city of Paris said...
With the Conservative opposition's lead slipping, Labour had hoped to gain further ground by softening Brown's austere public image. In a Valentine's Day interview with talent-show judge Piers Morgan, Brown gave a moving account of the death of his baby daughter nine years ago: "I think it's important that people know who you are and I think it's important that people can ask any questions they like about you," said Brown. "I'm an open book as far as people are concerned...
...just how badly could these assaults on Brown's character impact on his chances of victory? "If the story carries on and you get a new and fixed public sense of Brown, that he's a bully and he's emotionally out of control, that could be immensely damaging," says Peter Kellner, the president of the polling organization YouGov. The Prime Minister's best hope of retaining his job, adds Kellner, is that voters see Brown "as passionate - and better that than somebody who's bland...