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...quirky Kim Jong Il reached out kindly to the previously abhorred, non-communist South, summiting gaily with its leader and making Korea's pacification seem, suddenly, like a living prospect. Changes in Russia were more ambiguous as the blank-faced Vladimir Putin took charge. He was at least a sober antidote to the fitful Boris Yeltsin, but his unmoved reaction to the submarine Kursk's demise and his unapologetic bludgeoning of Chechnya showed him to be less than inspiring. Africa's news was bleak. The world awoke this year to the unspeakable holocaust AIDS is wreaking there, a calamity that...
...When I read about a celebrity's failure to stay sober, I think of the addict out there who's reading the same thing and giving up hope. And I sometimes wonder if sobriety does anyone any good unless you can use it to help sell your junk on the Internet. And so I make myself feel better by going on melaniegriffith.com and ordering some goddess beads. I don't know long delivery will be, but I'm sure it's something less than 28 days...
...interest of full disclosure, TIME is among the many publications who've offered him a chance to tell his story since going to prison. But these past few years, Downey hasn't served himself by discussing his addictions and recovery every time he's been sober for a few weeks. It's called Alcoholics Anonymous for a reason: Going public with one's recovery, especially in the beginning, adds to the pressure to stay sober. The lingering fear of disappointing family, friends and colleagues is heightened when the world's watching. Griffith is raising the stakes on her own sobriety...
...important to note that the film that probably best illustrates Buñuel's feelings about Christianity is also one of his most sober-minded, the Mexican production "Nazarin" (1958). Hailed by Christian critics as well as Buñuel's usual contingent of nonconformist fans, the film concerns a small-town priest whose attempts to dispense real Christian charity result in derision, poverty, exile and arrest. "Nazarin" demonstrates the essential difference between Buñuel's brand of blasphemy and that currently practiced in American pop culture: Buñuel's gags and images contain a strong sense...
...under the circumstances, electotainment may not be so bad. An electoral crisis like this inevitably leads to anger and feelings of disenfranchisement. A sober, reasoned settlement, theorized on the New York Times editorial page and worked out behind closed doors, may be the quickest route to stability. Or it may leave people reasonably suspecting that they've been sold out by secretive mandarins. Say what you will about the bile-spewing cable culture of call-in shows and town halls, it's all about enfranchisement: zapping your e-mail to CNN or MSNBC, hustling down to a live camera shoot...