LONDON AFP — Rafael Benitez was left in no doubt as to the depth of ill-feeling he has caused at Aston Villa this summer with his failed attempts to lure Gareth Barry to Liverpool as his perfect start to the new campaign ended in a 0-0 stalemate at Villa Park...
A professor at Harvard University, the Scottish-born Ferguson is renowned in the field of counterfactual history. His three-part series on WWII, “War of the World,” recently aired on PBS. His picks: My Five Most Important Books 1. “War and Peace” by Leo Tolstoy. The book that, more than...
The hurrahs emanating from television land last week were puzzling, even if they were typical for this age of irony. In the wake of a federal appeals court decision overturning $550,000 in fines against CBS Corp., for Janet Jackson's breast-baring halftime show in the 2004 Super Bowl, an official from...
HERE'S the irony of the classic car market. Chris Evans paid pounds 5.5million for a Ferrari 250 GT California, once owned by actor James Coburn, making it the most expensive classic motor in history, yet in a couple of months' time Steve McQueen's '69 Porsche 908 Spyder is expected to...
Enforce the laws It is beyond my understanding how any judge or parole board can live with the blood of police officers and other innocent victims of repeat criminals on its hands ("Police cast wide net," May 6). This is not a matter of more gun control. Enforce the many...
If there's one constant in the extraordinary, almost mythic story of former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, who was instrumental in bringing about the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, it's that it is shot through with irony after contradiction, and contradiction after irony. Wilson -- whose story...
There was a real irony in the recent intervention by the Federal Reserve System to provide the money that enabled the firm of JPMorgan Chase to buy Bear Stearns before it went bankrupt. The point was to try to prevent a domino effect of panic in the financial markets that...
It is the sadness of this failure that comes through most poignantly in Mark Edmundson's recent book, The Death of Sigmund Freud: The Legacy of His Last Days. Edmundson, professor at the University of Virginia, is not out to debunk Freud. Like Makari, and unlike Dalrymple,...
MOSCOW AFP — Russians are flocking to see a modern sequel to a Soviet-era cult film, indulging in a bout of nostalgia that embraces the subtle -- and not so subtle -- changes that have overtaken their country. The original "Irony of Fate" has been a hit for 32...
Chris Matthews tends to show little patience for politicians on TV, but as he writes in his new book, “Life’s a Campaign,” he’s learned a lot from them. One of the big lessons? The power of listening. NEWSWEEK’s Susannah Meadows took note. I would not...
Frank Caliendo, who does the highest-profile impersonations in TV sports, says the "one I really want to get in, but haven't found the right way, is Chris Berman." The comedian is in his fourth year popping up on Fox's NFL pregame show to appear as somebody else. He says Fox...
To the Editor: I only skimmed Ahmed Noor's article "Disruptions of Progress" in the November 2005 issue. I much prefer to read about real achievements that offer practical lessons to help me now. So I was pleased by the next article, Jean Thilmany's "A Short Stroll."...
If you did a little happy dance when you learned that beer can actually be good for you, you may want to sit down before reading the rest of this post. Foreign Policy's Passport blog reports that beer "defies the laws of supply and demand." The post discusses how the...
Sir' The readership has finally twigged. It has been obvious for some time that Cooper Brown is a figment of an editorial brainstorming, blue-sky staff meeting. Has anybody, apart from the mystical Lord whateverhisname and of course, his daughter the lovely Victoria ever seen CB in the...
When creating a presentation, the most important thing to remember is that all written or visual material serves only one purpose—to emphasize what the presenter is saying. Many people think that it’s necessary to produce an extensive visual presentation containing all the information being discussed. This is not the case,...
The 20th century was ripe with artistic movements and styles from Cubism to Pop, from Art Nouveau, via Art Deco, to Post-Modernism. But only one movement was institutional in character, gave itself its own name rather than having one applied post hoc by critics and only one had a long...
Like Elvis impersonators, Benjamin Franklin impersonators are a dime a dozen. This one should have left the building while the leaving was good. Josh Kornbluth, monologist, began his Ben career, to hear him tell it, while shaving one morning, contemplating his aimless life. Suddenly, like a bolt of...
IT Takes Two (BBC 2) Strictly Come Dancing judge Len Goodman lavishing high praise indeed on graceful duo Colin and Erin. Without a whiff of irony the old charmer gushed: "See how she flatulates around."
Byline: Ted Cox Daily Herald Staff Writer "I had started to really hate symmetry," Laurie Anderson said Sunday, while marveling at the seeming chaos of outer space in her new performance piece, "The End of the Moon." If Anderson happened to be...
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