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...quality of the HFPA membership has risen slightly since the days when it was thought to be a crowd of Beverly Hills florists and valet parkers loosely affiliated with foreign newspapers and magazines. But it remains a group of show business reporters, mostly, desperate for access to movie stars who, once a year, are avid to get free exposure by being on their show. The relationship is one of mutual parasitism, and deeply suspect. Live-blogging Sunday's Golden Globes show on her Deadline Hollywood web site, the asp-tongued industry reporter Nikki Finke wondered, "How many times is that...
...only is the first and only female Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, finishing her third year as leader of an energetic Democratic majority, but she is doing it with style, creativity and persistence. Pelosi has risen to the challenge offered by the economic instability and tumult of a new Administration to preside over a historic session of Congress. If that doesn't make her Person of the Year, I don't know what could...
...This is a step towards identifying specific adaptations that have risen as humans expanded and faced new environments,” said Shari R. Grossman ’08, the lead author of the paper...
...they need. On that score, experts say, prospective patients ought not to be scared off by the skepticism over antidepressants and should consult their doctors to find a course of treatment. In the nearly two decades since he published Listening to Prozac, Kramer notes, the standards of care have risen and the options have increased. "If people are doing badly," he tells TIME, "there are lots of good resources. They ought to turn to them...
...manner of websites - it would seem shocking that any coach would think he could get away with abusing a player. But coaches are more powerful than ever, with seemingly recession-proof salaries. According to a USA Today study, the average pay for major-college football coaches has risen 28% over the past two years, to $1.36 million. In 2007, 12 coaches made at least $2 million. Today, that number has more than doubled, to 25. According to the USA Today study, Leach made at least $2.7 million this year, Mangino $2.3 million and Leavitt $1.6 million. With money comes clout...