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...quarter, and over the past 18 months the magazine has lost about 500,000, or 22%, of its subscribers. In an impassioned statement delivered outside the New York City courthouse where she heard her sentence, Stewart made a sales pitch on behalf of her "beloved company." Standing in a sober black suit with her daughter Alexis behind her, she thanked fans for sending thousands of letters and e-mail messages and asked them to show their support by "subscribing to our magazine, by buying our products, by encouraging our advertisers to come back in full force to our magazines...
...Upon the death of a leader, a nation is tempted to idealize his accomplishments. I suggest we take a more sober view and remember that although Americans-and indeed the rest of the world-owe Reagan a debt of gratitude for his leadership in the closing days of the cold war, we must also recall his gutting of an already modest social safety net, pillaging of the national Treasury through irresponsible deficit spending and setting the stage for the Taliban's rise to power through his Administration's shortsighted support of the Afghan mujahedin. Christopher J. Hughey Neuilly-sur-Seine...
...underestimated the audience's desire to see [political] material," says Robert Greenwald, director of Uncovered: The War on Iraq, a sober and devastating critique of Bush's foreign policy. "I don't think it's about hating the President. It's that politics has been brought home to the deepest part of ourselves. People now feel Politics...
Documentaries are traditionally the sober stepchildren of movies, their makers are usually diligent folks behind the camera and in the editing room. With his 1989 Roger & Me, Michael Moore juiced up the genre by putting his bulky charisma front and center, pestering the powerful and using every trick in the propagandist's (and stand-up comedian's) arsenal to push home his political point. Fahrenheit 9/11 offers a crash course in an artful documentarian's sleight of hand. Five strategies in Moore Method...
...Charles Kimball, a Baptist minister and professor of religion at Wake Forest University. In other words, the approach of a Christian in Bible study searching for the small inarguable nugget of scriptural truth that will enable him to understand God's love for him, ignore all distractions and stay sober, may not be the best one for deciding what to do next in Iraq...