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...enjoy. "As the President stated during the campaign, he does not believe the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated," a White House spokesman said Feb. 18. Assuming the regulation doesn't get its renaissance this time, give it a few years. If history's any indication, the Fairness Doctrine will rear its head again...
Seth Jenkins grabs a black-faced Suffolk sheep around the neck and with Billie Fowler nudging from behind, they lead the nearly 200-lb animal onto a plywood board. The friends maneuver the ewe onto her rear haunches, exposing her belly, and with Jenkins wedging the furry animal between his knees, Fowler hands him a pair of electric shears...
...Latin America also sees a certain hypocrisy in the U.S. position. Yes, Chávez has been a pain in the rear to U.S. oil companies, and he has cozied up to Iran and staged military maneuvers with Russia in the Caribbean. But Chávez, unlike U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, at least still lets U.S. oil firms have stakes in Venezuelan petro projects. And no one recalls any Venezuelan names on the list of 9/11 hijackers. Whatever the geopolitical calculus of Washington's coddling of Riyadh may be, Latin Americans still see the U.S. as giving Saudi Arabia...
...actually listened to a motivational speech before, I called Rod Woodson, an 11-time Pro Bowler, NFL Network analyst and Super Bowl XXXV winner. "Everybody is not Marshall," Woodson said. "A lot of guys under pressure can fall to pieces if someone is not kicking them in the rear to get them going." I gave Woodson the old Clooney rallying speech, and the disadvantages of having an audience who listens became clear. "I'd give it a C minus," said Woodson. "You need a little more emotion behind it." For a model, he suggested I listen to a tape...
...John Michael Hayes, 89, batted out radio crime shows before becoming Alfred Hitchcock's go-to screenwriter in the mid-50s, penning Rear Window, To Catch a Thief, The Trouble With Harry and The Man Who Knew Too Much. An Oscar nomination for Peyton Place launched Hayes as the favored writer of elevated sleaze: Butterfield 8, The Carpetbaggers and the Carroll Baker Harlow...