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...amazing people - some famous, most not - who provoke, inspire and generally make the world a better place. Not all of our heroes could make the event; British football star and freelance style icon David Beckham had to meet with Nelson Mandela in South Africa instead. But it was quite a night. Liam Gallagher of Oasis came by to pick up an award on behalf of the Who's Roger Daltrey, who has helped build eight hospital wards for the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust. (Daltrey made a gracious speech by video from the U.S.) Bono, the Irish rocker...
...hardly an auspicious week for a revival of American feminism. Buffy the Vampire Slayer finally gave up the ghost. Christine Todd Whitman, a pioneering Republican governor, quit as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. More worrying, a new easy-to-apply testosterone gel was approved for sale. But by the end of last week, Annika Sorenstam emerged from these feminist shadows. Playing coolly and calmly as the first woman in a PGA tournament since 1945, the Swedish golfer provoked even chauvinist curmudgeons to relent...
...being considered; when informed, 84% want to vote on it. Blair won't permit a referendum; it's the last thing he needs. But opponents think the refusal leaves him vulnerable to charges of arrogance - which not only Tories are making. Clare Short, his longtime International Development Minister, quit the Cabinet last week to protest the U.N.'s marginal role in Iraq, but blasted Blair for issuing "diktats in favor of increasingly badly thought-through policy initiatives." To British voters, arrogance and Brus-sels are intertwined - yet another trap for Blair. And even if somehow, sometime, they could be persuaded...
...shows had allowed the network to achieve several goals advertisers had asked of it, including drawing more young and female viewers. "You wanted us to capitalize on the audience's appetite [for reality], but not rely on it," he said. In other words, "We got you your damn eyeballs! Quit whining...
While an engineer at Intel in the late '90s, Ralston told the Times, he saw the IMAX movie Everest, which tells the story of a team of climbers whose attempted ascent turned deadly. Ralston was intrigued. He told the paper he quit the Intel job when he couldn't take three weeks to go climbing in Alaska. Since then, he has made a life of exploring the outdoors and following the jam bands Phish and String Cheese Incident while working at Ute Mountaineer in Aspen...