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...answers, then "No answer." And before long, from their hovering teachers, "Interview over." His only threat of physical violence comes in Israel, from the Orthodox Jews who see his camera and shout, "Get the hell out of here!" (You get the full versions of these confrontations in the new Random House book Spurlock has written about his trip...
...gorgeous piece of interface design laid over a technically very sweet video player. The offerings are eclectic but compelling: a handful of current shows (The Office, The Simpsons, 30 Rock), a larger handful of "classic"--i.e., old and canceled--shows (Adam-12? Alfred Hitchcock Presents? Airwolf?) and a random, sometimes startling collection of movies (Point Break! The Big Lebowski! End of Days!). No wonder Hulu has reportedly already sold its entire advertising inventory. It's depressing to live in a world in which huge, faceless corporations can do something right...
...Argentine-born Andres Oppenheimer, a Miami Herald columnist and co-recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, contrasts Latin America with tigers like Ireland and China in Saving the Americas: The Dangerous Decline of Latin America and What the U.S. Must Do (Random House; 300 pages). He tells the story of an Indiana businessman who, on a visit to the Great Wall, grouses that his Mexican clients don't "reinvest in their companies or improve the quality of their materials like the Chinese." Latin America's bane, Oppenheimer suggests, is "peripheral blindness"--measuring itself against its past instead of its contemporary competitors...
Despite their seeming frequency in recent years, shooting rampages on college campus do not occur on a regular or daily basis. What does occur on a daily basis is the interaction between students and faculty. Bringing guns into this equation is unwise in the extreme. Fear of random attack from a single deranged student is one thing, and a dormitory full of potential gun-owners is entirely another. The knowledge that a disturbed classmate or a creepy professor may have a gun in his or her desk would completely contort relationships—everything would be tinged with a faint...
...version of “Bohemian Rhapsody” translated in its entirety to Yiddish and altered slightly to fit the Jewish subject matter. “When I started writing the script ages ago, I was sitting and thinking that it would be really fun to translate some random song into Yiddish and I came up with ‘Bohemian Rhapsody.’ It’s a really fun, crazy song that has a sort of cult following,” she says. “It is the grand finale of the show...