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...Orwell, who died in 1950, never shrank from the big stuff. "The three great subjects of the twentieth century were imperialism, fascism and Stalinism," writes Christopher Hitchens in his wonderful book Why Orwell Matters. Those were Orwell's topics, and he was right on all of them: able to pierce the hypocrisy of imperial adventures, to warn of the deathly appeal of fascism, and - when many were in thrall to the supposed achievements of the Soviet Union - to state baldly that Stalin was a "disgusting murderer." It is because Orwell was unflinching in his opposition to all the totalitarianisms...
...just wanted to get away from any kind of pressure and take my time. I wrote 43 songs ... And I recorded 43 songs. That's a bunch of songs," she says, giggling. "Literally, songs that no one else in the world would understand or like--I still did 'em. Stuff with no choruses in them, over jazz beats, whatever. I completely was"--lengthy pause--"an artist. If you listen to the album, you'll see that I've evolved into a woman...
...which Ann-Margret doesn't appear. The movie takes Grease, whose script it basically copied, and then actually tones it down. "To get the PG rating, we couldn't say 'sex' or 'If you've got it, flaunt it.' Back in the day, you could get away with stuff you can't get away with now," says Idol runner-up Justin Guarini, 24, in a New York City hotel suite. "In Grease they were smoking," says Idol No. 1 Kelly Clarkson, 21, sitting beside him. "In high school." Wait until she hears about the gum chewing...
...says he has a thriving military business, accounting for 10% of his roughly $5 million in annual sales. "We don't actively design for the military," says Coupounas, 37, who climbs 14,000-ft. mountains to personally test his firm's new products. "They just happen to like our stuff...
With the military under orders to get lighter and faster, several companies that make gear for outdoor-adventure athletes are booking sales to special-forces units assigned everywhere from Afghanistan's Tora Bora mountains to the Philippine jungles. "Private companies are leading in the R. and D. of this stuff," says Colonel Tom Blume, director of procurement for U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) in Tampa, Fla. "We love off-the-shelf items because we don't have to put R. and D. into them...