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...optimism, the resolutions and the thinly-veiled self-help books. There are some, like Henry Alford's How To Live that hide their chicken-soup soul within the well-structured tale of a fruitful personal journey. Then there are those such as Rich Like Them, whose vigorous attempts to shake off the label ("It's not what you think of as a traditional self-help book...I chose instead to look at the context of these lives, to tell people's stories"), just end up making the author sound slightly embarrassed by his task. Not that he should be. There...
...topic addressed by journeymen writers (Good was adapted by John Wrathall) and directors who seem to think that the importance of the subject will enhance the inherent modesty of their own gifts. But this is not so; we emerge from their movies frustrated by their failures to grasp and shake our souls. I would like to propose a cinematic moratorium on this subject: a thoughtful silence, rich in remembrance, but lacking in the desire to leap forth a couple of times a year with slack, distant, by-the-numbers products like Good...
...Corps Base Hawaii, and Obama has made an effort to mingle with the Marines stationed there. Every morning but Christmas Day Obama has worked out at the facility, pausing afterward to greet the service members and their friends and family who gather near his motorcade to take pictures and shake his hand. On Christmas Eve, Obama greeted the crowd outside the gym with a hearty "Mele Kalikimaka!," Hawaiian for "Merry Christmas...
With no scheduled public appearances Obama has done his best to avoid the traveling press corps and the dozens of local media members, paparazzi and others trying to snap a photo or shake the hand of the man who will be President. On Tuesday, 37 photos taken Sunday of a shirtless and buff Obama lounging with his family outside of estate where they are staying were sent by Bauer Griffin, a Los Angeles photo agency, to the Huffington Post, TMZ.com and Celebuzz.com, according to the Associated Press. The pictures show Barack and Michelle Obama and their daughters in bathing suits...
...this time, the Gallic Nation managed to shake off its tendency for self-doubt and nationalism. For now, French commentators are viewing Caspar's arrival at Michelin as a gain for French gastronomy at Germany's expense. "I'm as thrilled they've finally named a woman as I am disinterested in her nationality - which in a globalized world where only competence counts means nothing," famed chef Alain Senderens told TIME. Adds Laurent Mariotte, a food expert who hosts cooking programs on radio's France Info and television's TF1: "French cuisine has recently begun shedding it's reputation...