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...like everything else here, they are ambiguous enough to be easily defendable in a courtroom, should it come to that. As I sat in 127's practice bunker, I caught myself wondering, Where were you when I lived here? As recently as three years ago, it was still somewhat risque to turn music up really loud or wear Capri pants in certain parts of town. Now music like 127's, which offers an artful expression of a dark, complex reality, helps make living in Iran more bearable. Even the murals around Tehran of scowling ayatullahs have been repainted to give...
...have Deep Throat in it, he says, but it didn't have Woodward and Bernstein either, and that doesn't make them inventions. Scott Armstrong, a former Senate Watergate committee investigator and onetime Woodward collaborator on The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court, thinks Deep Throat's role was somewhat distorted by the high drama of shadowy garage encounters with Woodward that were featured in the book's movie version, in which the journalist is played by Robert Redford. Says Armstrong: "Bob gave Redford some s___ once about pulling Deep Throat out of context." Armstrong also notes that Woodward and Bernstein...
...McKenzie, home is a somewhat trickier proposition. Besides the rented flat in Vancouver, there's her car, which she drove up from L.A. filled to the roof with her books and painting easel. Now divorced from an orthopedic surgeon she met when they were students at high school, she was more recently linked with actor-director Simon McBurney, co-founder of London's famed Theatre de Complicite. "I'm very reticent talking about those kind of things," she says. Instead, "where my parents and my sister are - that is where home is," she says. To this beloved harbor...
...raised in East Germany, would become Germany's first female Chancellor. She has said her immediate focus would be domestic issues, particularly the economy. (She supports loosening job-protection laws, overhauling pensions and curbing the power of trade unions.) But on international affairs, she is likely to be somewhat friendlier to Washington. While Merkel has criticized the stridency of Schröder's Iraq-war opposition, a spokesman for her party said that like the current government, the Christian Democrats would not support sending German troops to Iraq. -By Andrew Purvis
...rampant inactivity, this year the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which have been issued every five years since 1980, included its most explicit recommendations to date on exercise. The scientists who wrote the guidelines struggled to boil down a complex array of research findings. The results, alas, were somewhat baffling. Americans were advised to get 30 min. per day of moderate-intensity physical activity "on most days of the week," 60 min. per day if they were trying to control their weight and up to 90 min. per day to maintain weight loss. Even a temperate government scientist like Kohl...