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...Thus Moore made himself into, as the ad for Capitalism proclaims, "the most feared filmmaker in America." Certainly the most provocative: there are nearly as many movies attacking Moore (mostly docs but also David Zucker's anti-Moore comedy-satire An American Carol) as there are films directed by him. Yet to his kind of movie star, any mention, whether deferential or defamatory, is free publicity. Not that Moore needs others to do the work he's so accomplished at. He was the star guest on the second episode of Jay Leno's new prime-time show, flacking for Capitalism...
...Handshake is a greeting, an expression of trust, a mutual guarantee by two people that--at least in one hand--they carry no weapon. But it can also ensure a measure of distance and convey an articulation of reserve, as if its participants are thinking, Thus far and no further. A handshake is not a hug. There was little obvious warmth when Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu and the Palestinian Authority's Mahmoud Abbas met, under the stern gaze of Barack Obama, at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York City. The history of their nations is littered with too many...
...discover that she has become a ghost. "What am I supposed to be learning from the spiritual equivalent of house arrest?" she wonders. "Is this an oversight on the part of the celestial authorities?" She can't leave the apartment, though she can, with great effort, nudge physical objects. (Thus vindicating the "noetic science" of Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol...
...took a team, led by Fash, to open Harvard’s doors for Pastor. Scholars at Risk, a nationwide initiative that finds posts for academics who find themselves persecuted and thus unable to pursue their academic work had already hired its faculty for the fall semester. Undeterred, Fash sought a network of support within the Faculty of Arts and Science to gather the resources to find Pastor a position at Harvard...
...buried in the bill is a ban on any money to be used to transfer, release or incarcerate any individual who was detained as of Oct. 1, 2009, at Guantánamo to or within the United States or its territories. That is the toughest language Congress has used thus far in the battle, and it would block Obama not only from moving the most dangerous individuals to the U.S. for detention, but from even bringing in 40 or so others for trials in either regular courts or in military commissions. (See pictures from inside Guantanamo Bay's detention facilities...