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...ultrarich--American bankers, Arab sheiks, Hong Kong Chinese. Now the Litvinenko case is making some Brits wonder whether the city has turned into Moscow-on-Thames, overly populated by secret agents and those who have struck it lucky at the roulette wheel of the former Soviet Union's rude, oil-soaked brand of capitalism...
...Grammy and a Tony. As of July, she has had a radio show on Clear Channel (no awards yet). And, oh, yes, Goldberg, 51, writes children's books in her spare time. Her latest, Whoopi's Big Book of Manners (Hyperion), takes on a particular pet peeve of hers: rude kids. Not her grandkids, of course. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with the comedian...
...first visit to a predominantly Muslim country as a rhetorical Act II to the Regensburg speech. There, in the confines of a German university, he questioned Islam's compatibility with reason, he cited the Koran's references to jihad, and he quoted a Byzantine emperor's rude remarks about Muhammed. In Turkey, if nothing else, Benedict followed the old rule that visiting world leaders don't wag their finger at their host country...
...ingenuity hasn’t ended there, though. For the past two weeks, we’ve been prank calling every number that we could find on Yale’s website. So let’s just say that their football team is in for a rude awakening when they find out that pants are in fact required for the Game this year. Looks like there are gonna be a few more balls being passed around than usual...
...graphic representations of victims being tortured and mutilated. What does it say about us as human beings when this type of film is seen as a pleasurable cinematic experience? Why should we then be surprised that so much of life in our cities and towns has become increasingly rude and violent...