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...Both star-studded games. Both huge rivalries. Both starting at the same time...
...according to the antimissileers. Flying lasers are the dream of Star Wars boosters, theoretically combining the speed of light with multiple shots from a single platform. Such lasers play into America's can-do hubris, compounded by the frisson of excitement generated by theoretical invulnerability they provide. "The airborne laser is initially proven and should continue to be developed, tested and even deployed if necessary," Riki Ellison, a former NFL linebacker who now heads the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance, said shortly after the shootdown. "The ability of our military to use the airborne laser ... to engage and destroy multiple Iranian...
...young cook named James Kent, who helps run the kitchen in New York City's Eleven Madison Park restaurant, was anointed as this year's hope to break the jinx. Given the splendor of the food he produced in the qualifying contest, and the nanotech precision of his four-star kitchen - not to mention the months of training and coaching he'll receive - there's every reason to believe Kent will do better than the U.S.' best ever finish. The question, though, isn't whether we can win; the question is why we would even want to. (See Bocuse...
Montag, for those of you who want to pretend you don't know, is one of the most important reality-show stars of our time. To promote her album, the 23-year-old star of MTV's The Hills agreed to appear on a People magazine cover to show off all the plastic surgery she's gotten. She posed in Playboy, started her own fashion line and declared that as a celebrity she should not have to endure staying on the show I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me out of Here! She is the Paris Hilton of our time...
Superficial buyers, I discovered, are young, hard-core pop-culture geeks who still don't realize that being a star is different from being a celebrity. Anyone who has been to high school knows that talent and popularity are unrelated, especially if they went to my high school and read my work in the literary magazine Reflections. (See the top 10 albums...