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...French dailies traditionally publish on all holidays except the May 1 labor day. But Libération editors explained that sluggish sales on days off don't offset the cost of printing the cash-strapped paper. Rival publications reacted not with smug guffaws, but with more of the same. Conservative daily Le Figaro now says it will also suspend publication on three French holidays. That follows the earlier lead of financial dailies Les Echos and La Tribune to sit out national holidays - a sous-pinching habit to which Catholic daily La Croix and its communist opposite L'Humanité have...
Meet the Press •ratings of continue to plunge, possibly because God is punishing the smug moderator of for his 2007 prancing around on stage at one of those incestuous Washington correspondents dinners while Karl Rove "rapped," a performance widely believed to be the nadir of Caucasian entertainment...
...tell your friends! Hack the system before Harvard seals it up. This crack has worked since at least 2006, so we doubt Admissions will be able to fix it too quickly, but hit that as soon as possible so you can saunter into class, smug in the knowledge that that insufferable Michael Gary in your math class won't be joining you at the a cappella jam in a couple of weeks. Until you find out it's Michael Gehry. Then you'd best check again...
...Fanning's exquisite delivery, is its provocative look at motherhood. On Desperate Housewives, Huffman is mostly mired in the silly slapstick of parenthood, but in Phoebe she really gets to dig into the painful dichotomy of a stay-at-home mother who longs to have professional success. Like the smug academic dad in The Squid and the Whale, Hillary believes that her child is different from other kids in a good way, an offshoot of Hillary's own genius, which has been unfairly suppressed by domestic horrors like cooking dinner. In actuality, she seems to treat motherhood as a part...
...funny you say that because I was just reading a KenKen review that described the game as "entertaining yet provides a slightly smug feeling that they're good for your mind...