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...come if we could sing together Caro Mio Ben. [But] don't make a big story," he told the abundant press corps. "She told me in confidence." A Madonna rep had no official comment. As for Madonna's rumored duet with Britney Spears, Spears was a relative model of restraint when she told a Swedish magazine, "There never were any clear plans, only lots of talk. But I'd really love to do it." Back to Pavarotti: "I have asked Madonna, but she has been busy. First she makes the baby, and then, I don't know...
...Harvard, and at many other institutions, the idea of academic freedom prevails. Institutions that uphold this freedom must protect the right of scholars to pursue research, to teach and to publish without control or restraint. Thus, Mansfield most certainly has the right to state his opinions--no matter how mean-spirited they might...
...beyond a simple agreement to disagree in peace or even a commitment to look for areas of shared belief. Ecumenism celebrates religious belief in the abstract. And that is the puzzle. Why is erroneous belief preferred over nonbelief? Spiritual brotherhood can start to look more like a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The religion cartel. We band together and solemnly agree not to poach one another's customers...
...have been even more multilayered; for instance, she wanted to include photo stills from The Seven Samurai, the Akira Kurosawa film that is integral to her story. "There was also originally something about counting in Arabic," she says, and bursts into peals of laughter. "I feel I exercised such restraint...
...Restraint, though, does not come naturally to the 43-year-old author. She says she has 50 to 100 unfinished books sitting around--some of them 120,000-word drafts, others a few chapters. She had a "terrible" time selling Samurai, and Plan B was to write "much more commercial things--not much point in finishing those." Not after Samurai, which has been sold to more than a dozen countries and optioned for the movies...