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...possesses the almost laudable ability to ignore decades of feminist screaming and offer his friend the sexy runaway (young Oscar-winner Anna Paquin) he's found in an elevator as a `pet.' There's Mickey (Kevin Spacey), Eddie's best friend, whose overtreated platinum blond hair is a testament to the excess that leads him to shag woman after woman...
Although the article concerns the case of journalist Mumia Abu-Jamal, currently on death row in Pennsylvania, the real argument here is about the death penalty. The phrase "Mumia should fry" illustrates unadulterated, bloodthirsty vengeance, based on the Old Testament...
Slaying Goliath is possible--Harvard swept the two on the road in '85, Yale accomplished the same in '87--but those are the only two such sweeps in 40 years, a testament to how daunting the task really...
...Learning Foundation. The former supports world health and human services programs, while the latter helps libraries in poor neighborhoods obtain software and computer services. TIME magazine Wall Street columnist Daniel Kadlec says that this is believed to be "the largest charitable donation by any individual. The donations are a testament not only to Microsoft's huge success, but also to the incredible wealth that is being made across Silicon Valley." Of course, notes Kadlec, "the man is worth over $70 billion. He can afford...
...London. Many of his plays have been criticized for their emotional inaccessibility, but, says Stoppard a bit testily, "If people think it, then they think it. That's fine." In fact, romantic passion has long been a preoccupation: his 1982 play The Real Thing is as searing a testament to love and its uncertainties--can this be the real thing?--as anything Stoppard has ever written, until...