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...perhaps above all is the need to rationalize the weirdness of celebrity. Fame is like a superpower, conferred near instantly on once ordinary people, unless you're a royal or a Minnelli. Celebrities can make us pay good money to watch movies based on TV shows we wouldn't watch for free in reruns. They change our clothes and haircuts. They even get us to buy--God help us--puggles. You should be grateful that Sharon Stone and Tom Hanks merely ask you to join the fight against AIDS. They could just as easily command you to build a pair...
...meaningless, because the bill stipulates that if a high-ranking government official testifies that such secrecy is required for national security, the court must accept that as conclusive.“You have a right to challenge, but you don’t have a right to win unless the government gives in,” Edgar said.The Patriot Act renewal legislation is facing a cloture vote in the Senate today. If 60 senators vote in favor of the measure, there can be no filibuster, which would make it likely that the bill would pass, Edgar said. But because...
...SAID RECENTLY THAT UNLESS CONGRESS REFORMS TRADITIONAL PENSION PLANS SOON, THE CONSEQUENCES COULD BE "VERY BAD." IF I'M A WORKER APPROACHING RETIREMENT AT A TEETERING COMPANY, WHAT DOES "VERY BAD" MEAN? If your retirement dreams hinge upon a pension plan that's underfunded, that threat is real. That threat is huge. We have $450 billion in underfunded plans, and $100 billion of that is with financially ailing companies...
...Family Stone” is not the warm, holiday movie or romantic comedy it is billed to be, and unless you’re looking to end your own romance by dragging your date to this, you’re better off staying at home and watching Parker before she lost her Prada and her personality in the “Sex and the City?...
...Tolkien was, of course, a devout and serious Christian believer who succeeded in converting Lewis from militant atheism. Somehow, critics imply, this should mean that Lewis’ work is sub par or meaningless. Why Tolkien’s critique should disqualify Lewis’ work is not clear, unless one expects Christians to have identical worldviews and opinions, and to march in a rigid theological lockstep. One could, of course, advance this argument, but it is fundamentally unserious...