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...heard the man. Forget all that crimson nonsense and pretend you're in a black-and-white film for a few hours. You'll be so classy, the opposing teams won't stand a chance...
...growth of the Tea Party movement, a diffuse conglomeration of forces that have coalesced around nothing so much as a shared hostility toward Washington. Or the Feb. 15 announcement by Indiana Senator Evan Bayh - a man who almost made it onto three presidential tickets - that he would not stand for re-election because "Congress is not operating as it should" and "even in a time of enormous challenge, the people's business is not getting done." (See pictures of Tea Party protests...
...having mentioned all the people right from the outset whose thoughts and texts have helped me." But she also defended her work by claiming that "true originality doesn't exist anyway, only authenticity" and insisted on her "right to copy and transform" other people's work, taking a stand against what she called the "copyright excesses" of the past decade. Nonetheless, her publishing company, Ullstein, seemed to care about the possible legal ramifications of her actions, and issued a statement saying it had contacted Airen's publishing company and asked for retroactive authorization of the disputed passages. Ullstein also said...
...have tied us together ... We'd love to have you share them with us." That sort of courtship, says conservative commentator David Frum, reflects the determination of the Beltway insiders to dig in their heels against efforts to remake a party they've helped build. "It's the last stand of the old guard," he says. "It looks to me like an attempt to reassert that the politics of the Reagan coalition can continue to win elections in 21st century America." By harking back to the past, he argues, the authors are also resisting the efforts of more-moderate conservatives...
Munich's newly opened Louis Hotel claims inspiration from mad King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Stand in the lobby, though, and the eccentric ruler, famed for his love of golden chariots, towering palaces and extravagant grottoes, definitely does not spring to mind. Would he really have taken to these simple clean lines and neutral color palettes, or joined guests for a tea ceremony in Emiko, the hotel's Japanese restaurant? Perhaps not. But he might have appreciated the flock of beautiful origami birds fluttering in the alcove, or the playful furniture (it's designed to look like luggage) in each...