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...ALLEN WALKER READ, 96, Language sleuth who hunted down the origin of words, including the initials O.K., which, he discovered, first appeared as an abbreviation, "O.K.--all correct," in the Boston Morning Post on March 23, 1839, a time when initials and misspellings, like "oll korrect," were oll the rage...
...undermining his church - which has already seen regular Mass attendance drop 20% since 1998. It can be no consolation either to Collins or Connell that other Catholic prelates around the world are in similar states of siege, as the church comes to terms with its persistent pedophiles and the rage of their victims, who are now banding together in advocacy groups linked by the Internet. Nowhere has it been easy to square the church's 2000-year-old traditions of priestly authority and institutional survival with modern notions of accountability. Last week, a committee of American and Vatican bishops...
...Josh Silver, a bank-lending activist, recently refinanced his home in the Washington area, and while his $300 monthly savings pleased him, errors in his closing documents sent him into a rage. There was a $400 overcharge for property-tax and homeowner's-insurance escrow. The bank "forgot" a $200 credit promised to him when he signed up for automatic debit payments. And at closing, he was asked to sign off on an insurance policy to pay his mortgage should he die - the cost of which had been written into his settlement papers...
Sandler's comic gift is that he can make a weirdo like Egan sympathetic without being sentimental. He never resorts to the emotional tics so beloved by comedians in dramatic roles. Despite the violent physicality of some of his characters, Sandler himself seems to lack the underlying rage that fuels other comics' work. Says Lorne Michaels, who was Sandler's boss on Saturday Night Live: "There's something that's essentially optimistic about him. He's one of the few people I know who's not embarrassed about doing comedy. He think it's a high goal...
...second lecture, “Rage: Resentment as Social Commentary,” Mitchell shared his thoughts on how African-American rage has been depicted onscreen since the 1940s. “At a certain point,” Mitchell said, “black people just stopped going to the movies because they were embarrassed about the way they were portrayed. Then Sydney Poitier won an Oscar for Lilies of the Field and they thought things might have changed. Ironically they hadn’t. Poitier won an Oscar for portraying an angry black man; something that had been...