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...rant against New York: "F___ you and this city and everyone in it!" He spreads his venom ecumenically--to the Pakistani cab drivers and the black schoolyard studs and the Soprano wannabes in Bensonhurst, and to the Irish-American boyos of whom Monty is one. It's a swell swill of gutter poetry--written by novelist-screenwriter David Benioff and vigorously illustrated in a tabloid-surrealist style by director Spike Lee--that touches on everything New Yorkers, and Americans, love to hate about the big city...
During a period that hasn't been kind to his industry, De Luca has kept Logitech growing. Its profits are expected to swell 25%, to $94 million, in the fiscal year ending in March. The company's stock price has more than quadrupled under De Luca...
...apology really an apology when it seems utterly insincere and comes wrapped in a cloak of cultural superiority? As profound as this question may seem, it is being hashed over not by philosophers but by lawyers. In a swell of nationalistic umbrage last year, a British tabloid, the Daily Mirror, printed the phone number of wealthy American film producer Steven Bing, whom it dubbed Bing Laden, and urged readers to call and berate him. Bing's crime? Denying he was the father of British model Elizabeth Hurley's child (DNA tests later proved his paternity). Bing, seen here with Hurley...
...success of these basic values will do much more than a series of sanitized TV spots. Once the Muslim world, from Southeast Asia to the Middle East, begins empowering its populace and preparing its youth to function in the modern world, we may actually begin to see the swell of anti-American anger subside. This may seem too long-term, but there are easy, common-sense things we can do right now, such as supporting and promoting the budding Bahrainian democracy (which just held its first democratic parliamentary elections) and pressuring Egypt to stop imprisoning its pro-democracy advocates...
...When the room is packed, I say, 'Thank you, Shakira and MTV,'" says Mesmera, who teaches belly dancing in Los Angeles. Mesmera (real name: Laurie Rose) began belly dancing 27 years ago and in recent months has seen her class sizes swell. She says she doesn't care what brings people in; she's just happy to get out the message that belly dancing "gives you a stronger sense of self," even if that self doesn't look like Shakira. "We're all different shapes and sizes, but Mesmera makes everybody feel beautiful," says Monica, a high school teacher. Echoes...