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Suleman, Nadya • father of questions "mental situation" of • hostile reaction of tens of thousands of total strangers to prompts grim assessment by newly resigned publicists for ("They want to rip her uterus...
That seems a reasonable reaction for someone who has spent the decade since the historic success of Titanic making sure she's an actress first and a celebrity only when useful; the YouTube universe, in which every utterance is rewound, scrutinized and parsed, is new to her. When she succumbed to some teary emotionalism at the Globes, the Times of London called her acceptance speech a "disaster" and warned direly that her exuberance was insensitive to the "darker, crueller" mood of an America in economic collapse. Try processing critiques like that while smiling warmly on camera as Oprah Winfrey tells...
...supporters, Obama should rely on the more dialogue-oriented foreign policy he promised in dealing with Chávez. (The President did say on the campaign trail last year that he would be willing to meet with Chávez.) "It was good for Obama to see the reaction in Latin America" to the Univision interview, says Chávez's former ambassador to the U.S., Bernardo Alvarez. "Maybe now he'll consider what he can learn from a face-to-face with Chávez. He'd see a man with differences, yes, but also someone looking...
When asked how his New Year celebrations have been, the pilgrim - a middle-aged businessman wearing a heavy winter coat against the bitter winds that knife through the monastery's narrow alleys - immediately glances up and then over his shoulder. It is the universal, instinctive reaction of Tibetans I talked to on a recent trip to China's far western province of Qinghai, where ethnic Tibetans make up the majority of the population in the areas closest to the Qinghai-Tibet border. "Cameras," he hisses, nodding upward. "The police have them everywhere...
...renegotiating their agreements. Union locals in Michigan and New York have rejected proposals for contract concessions, and UAW chief Ron Gettelfinger has sensed the mood of his membership. He's not buying the claim that union costs are sinking the industry. Other labor leaders are watching Obama's reaction to the UAW to see whether the new President will stick up for his union friends. Meanwhile, business continues to tumble. Forecasters predict 2009 sales of 10 million to 11 million units, down by about a third from recent years, when the economy was robust. And until people stop losing their...