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...becoming clear to me already that somehow this guy, even in my house, really is a movie star. Maybe the only one we have now. There are plenty of huge box-office draws (Will Smith, Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Ben Stiller, Adam Sandler, Johnny Depp) and even more famous celebrities (Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Angelina Jolie, Jennifer Lopez, Lindsay Lohan), but no one besides Clooney is so gracefully both. After an actor achieves media saturation, there's actually an inverse relation between fame and box-office receipts: people aren't going to pay for what they can get for free...
...sexual revolution owes something to the softening of support for liberalism in general. The National Opinion Research Center in Chicago, which has been surveying liberal and conservative attitudes since 1972, reports that the dominant social views in America are still liberal, but not so solidly as they once were. Tom W Smith of N.O.R.C. writes that in most categories, liberal sentiments "either leveled off or slowed their rate of increase around 1973-75. Instead of a conservative tide, the period since about 1973 can be better described as a liberal plateau...
...Tom has made it a priority to work with us on ways to help our students connect what we do in Expos to the writing they will do during their four years at Harvard,” Jane Rosenzweig, an Expos preceptor, said in an e-mail...
...When he was 16, The nazis occupied his native Hungary. Years after escaping death camps and fighting Nazis underground, Tom Lantos became the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the U.S. Congress. The visible, sometimes blunt 14-term California Democrat, whose mother perished in the war, proudly ruffled feathers as a loud, consistent advocate for human rights. In one year as chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Lantos demanded Japan apologize for wartime sex slavery and declared Turkey's World War I mass killing of Armenians genocide. Lantos...
...enjoyment out of skewering politicians? -Tom Hale, New York CityI don't believe I do that, and that's certainly not my goal. What I try to do is elicit information. Sometimes it means asking a question two or three times. I recognize that I'm persistent. If a politician wants to offer bromides, they can buy a 30-second commercial...