Word: simonal
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...More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation By James Carville Simon & Schuster; 209 pages...
...then there's The Mentalist. CBS's latest crime procedural, starring hunky Simon Baker as phony psychic turned sleuth Patrick Jane, is not just the biggest new hit of the season; it is arguably the only new hit of the season. It reliably draws huge audiences, even in weeks when it has run against American Idol - as many as 20 million viewers, nearly double the audience of the nearest new contender, Fox's Fringe. (See the top 10 TV series...
...SIMON COWELL insinuates he may quit American Idol, leaving no one to prop up Paula...
...Pascal Haegeli, a postdoctoral fellow at B.C.'s Simon Fraser University, recently started studying the mentality of people who venture knowingly into dangerous avalanche terrain. But until we have a better sense of what compels so many people to duck under the saftey ropes, he worries about rescue policies that might deter those in need from seeking help. And like other critics of pay-for-rescue rules, he argues that if you are to hold people responsible for negligence, then there has to be a very clear notion of competence, yet in most backcountry scenarios there is no absolutely correct...
...audience’s eventual, benevolent embracement of her—that has been the driving force behind Boyle’s recent popularity. It comes as no surprise then that the most willfully nasty among us—cough, cough, “Got Talent” creator Simon Cowell—seem so drawn to the concept of Susan Boyle. Upon any sort of consideration, however, the idea of “a Susan Boyle” reveals itself to be as artificial as Cowell’s malevolent public persona. Though her story is moving...