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...herself as a polite, grandmotherly lady. She constantly discusses her five grandchildren, makes sure her office is stocked with Ghirardelli chocolates, perpetually smiles and never swears in a business in which almost everyone else does. She even has a few cute quirks she and her staff would love to tell you about: a diet consisting mostly of chocolate and chocolate ice cream, and so much energy, she rarely sleeps. Just the other night, she will tell you, she was up watching MTV after midnight...
...more inspiring are efforts by one children's network to fight the prevailing notion that TV is the Great Satan. Programs are explained in terms of how they improve a tot's language-comprehension skills, his abstract-thinking skills, his "auditory-discrimination" skills--which, as best as I can tell, involve a child's ability to sing the Dora the Explorer theme song at top volume until Mommy's ears bleed. The network's website has a parent's section detailing the miracle of "connected learning" that occurs via the media's ability "to help children make connections between essential...
...even contemptuous, of introspection. "I don't spend a lot of time looking in the mirror," he once bragged, "except when I comb my hair." Last week, though, he suddenly yielded to reporters' endless, and hitherto fruitless, efforts to plumb his moods. Days after aides had taken pains to tell reporters the President had not expressed frustration in a meeting about Iraq, Kelly O'Donnell of NBC pressed, "But are you frustrated...
...Fame Becomes Me uses the autobiographical device as an excuse for a demolition of earnest showbiz tell-alls, Broadway-musical clich?s and just about any other media target that it can lay its hands on. Some of it goes by so fast you want to do a quick rewind - Short's buttery impression of Ray Bolger, as an animated fencepost in a spoof of The Wizard of Oz, for example, or the spot-on impressions of Jodie Foster and Ren?e Zellweger announcing the nominees in Marty's Oscar category (he loses, but makes a soused acceptance speech anyway). Some...
...institute gender segregation in some public academic institutions, and impose repressive Islamic codes that have been ignored here since the late 1990s. Because the Iranian system is composed of ministries with overlapping mandates and multiple security apparatuses that often act upon their own initiative, it is difficult to tell whether these measures signal a government-wide crackdown, or the individual efforts of radical government appointees emboldened by the Islamic conservatism of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad...