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...maybe not about what was said by President Summers, but about how it was said. And what I’ve heard from many professors—black, white, male and female—is that President Summers’ people skills aren’t up to snuff. In the beginning, one of the things that worried me about this whole issue is, “What is going to happen in the future because of his leadership abilities?” If he is going to make criticisms he has to know how to do that...
Actors Are Nuts. Imagine, say, a snuff film, where the star gets killed--really killed--at the end. Somewhere there's an actor who will tell you, "And I was this close to getting that part...
...effort, it unfortunately seems, is to ask the government or Congress for help and a lot of money. Many airlines refuse to talk about security measures because of concerns that just the people they are worried about would learn more about their operations to root out trouble and snuff it out. But according to aviation experts and security professionals, most airlines are not planning on following Mesa's remarkable move...
...debate is burning hot right now, with the National Academy of Sciences concluding in a report released Tuesday maintaining that that carmakers have the technology to bring SUVs up to miles-per-gallon snuff. And while the House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed a compromise proposal to tighten the standards by about 1 mpg (theoretically saving 5 billion gallons between 2004 and 2010), House Democrats - joined by their Senate counterparts readying for their own crack at energy legislation - are pushing for a much more ambitious measure...
...Snuff fans had to be cheered last week as the inexorable march of network television toward live-murder broadcasts took another step forward. JUSTIN SEBIK, 26, a contestant on the CBS reality snoozefest Big Brother 2, was tossed from the show after he really wielded a butcher knife, really held it to the throat of a fellow contestant he was kissing and really asked, "Would you be mad at me if I killed you?" Both Sebik and his paramour, Krista Stegall, had apparently been drinking earlier in the evening, and it was clear that Stegall was not concerned...