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Cheap shots, quick thoughts, bon mots: * Should a near death experience change your life? Cowen: "I say use the experience to rationalize a change you wanted to make anyway.  Most people have less than perfect courage or willpower, but a near-death experience can ...

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Blog posts 2007-06-02

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Football: Top Roy Hayled by Barry

FULHAM legend Barry Hayles has backed the shock appointment of Roy Hodgson as the new manager. Hodgson took over on Friday, a week after Lawrie Sanchez was sacked. He faces a real battle to avoid the drop with Fulham in the relegation zone, having won only...

Articles 2007-12-30

Kanoute strikes early to set Seville on way to easy victory

By Lucy Benjamin Seville took all three points from their Champions League Group H match last night after beating Slavia Prague 4-2 at the Sanchez Pizjuan stadium. The Spanish side took the lead with an early goal by Frederic Kanoute, following up with goals...

Articles 2007-10-03

Charlize demands TV snog

IRISH hunk Stuart Townsend watched aghast as his beautiful girlfriend, actress Charlize Theron, demanded a snog from one of America's most popular TV news anchors. Oscar winner Charlize was in the middle of an interview with TV newsman, Rick Sanchez, when she made light of her...

Articles 2007-02-25

Births.(Neighbor)

Condell Medical Center - Giselle Mae Yu Abellana, Nov. 5 to Kim Postrero Abellana and Agnais Yu Abellana, Hainesville. Grandparents: Proceso Ostulano Abellana Jr., Michael Peters Richards, Ruth Postrero Richards, all of Wheeling; Ernesto Velasco Yu, Lydia Escala Yu, Lake Villa. ...

Articles 2006-12-04

Marital Mythology

I very much appreciated Julian Sanchez's thoughtful review of my book, Marriage, A History ("Marital Mythology," June). I was sorry, however, to hear that I come across as fatalistic about the future of marriage. I certainly don't think marriage is dead, and I do think there are ways to save...

Articles 2006-10-01

Fashion police: copyrighting couture

IF YOU WATCH the fashion pages, you already know that last year's must-have item was designer Roland Mouret's "Galaxy" dress, the curve-accentuating retro number in which Scarlett Johansson strode down the red carpet at the 2005 Oscars. Thanks to a thriving knock-off industry, today you can stroll into the U.K.'s...

Articles 2006-07-01

The Wal-Mart Crusade

Julian Sanchez failed to mention an important part of Richard Greenwald's documentary Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price the segment on Wal-Mart's use of sweatshop labor in China ("The Wal-Mart Crusade," March). Despite Wal-Mart's $7 billion in annual profits, it continues to depress wages and working conditions in its...

Articles 2006-07-01

Reason news

We're pleased to welcome David Weigel as reason's new assistant editor. A longtime contributor to both the magazine and the Web site, Weigel has been a reporter for Campaign and Elections and, most recently, an assistant at the USA Today op-ed page. Outgoing Assistant Editor Julian Sanchez will continue to...

Articles 2006-07-01

Regulating bloggers: free speech on the Web

THE LIBERAL blog Daily Kos and its conservative counterpart RedState don't agree on much, but last March they joined virtual hands to protect the Internet from the Federal Election Commission FEC. The agency had originally concluded that the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act's rules pertaining to "public communications" had...

Articles 2006-07-01

Stripping cable: the war on "indecency"

FREED FROM the fetters that bind broadcasters using "the public airwaves," cable and satellite providers are able to pipe into our homes the indecent, gratuitous, excessively violent programming that all right-thinking Americans demand. Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.V.) wants to change that. Rockefeller hopes to incorporate portions of his...

Articles 2006-06-01

Marital mythology: why the new crisis in marriage isn't

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage, by Stephanie Coontz, New York: Viking, 432 pages, $29.95 Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood Before Marriage, by Kathryn Edin and Maria Kefalas, Berkeley: University of California Press, 293 pages, $24.95 ...

Articles 2006-06-01

Suing the spooks: NSA wiretap blowback

IT'S HARD TO mount a legal challenge to a highly classified government eavesdropping program when the list of potential plaintiffs is a state secret. So in order to challenge the National Security Agency's controversial program of warrantless wiretaps, the American Civil Liberties Union has assembled a group of journalists, academics,...

Articles 2006-05-01

Bar new Miranda-rights question

Police officers across the United States may soon have to add a new question to the list of constitutionally required Miranda rights. In addition to the right to remain silent and the right to an attorney, officers soon may be required to ask every arrestee whether he is a foreign...

Articles 2006-03-12

Saura's 'Iberia' opens Guadalajara.(Guadalajara Film Festival, Carlos Saura )(Brief Article)

Mexico's 21st Guadalajara Film Festival opens March 24 with Carlos Saura's latest pic, musical "Iberia," and wraps March 31 with Edward James Olmos' student-protest drama "Walkout." Vet producer Jorge Sanchez Sosa takes the reins of the festival for the first time...

Articles 2006-02-17

Blowing off steam: detainee deaths

THE MAN WITH graying hair had "blunt force injuries complicated by compromised respiration," the result of a synthetic hood placed over his head during interrogation by Navy Seals and an unidentified "Other Government Agency," which typically means the CIA. The obese 56-year-old man died of "asphyxia due to smothering and...

Articles 2006-02-01

Couch potato subsidies: TV goes digital

THE FIRST DUTY of government is to secure our fundamental rights. No doubt that is why the Senate agreed in November to spend up to $3 billion retrofitting old television sets to guarantee that every man, woman, and child in these United States would be able to enjoy high-quality digital...

Articles 2006-02-01

Stop the music: taking on the record industry

SINCE 2003 THE Recording Industry Association of America RIAA has filed almost 15,000 lawsuits charging computer users with trading music online. Now one of its targets is suing back. Tanya Andersen, a 42-year-old disabled single mother, has filed a countersuit in Oregon alleging that the industry's practices violate, among other...

Articles 2006-01-01

Unscientific methods

In The Republican War on Science Basic Books, Chris Mooney, Seed's Washington correspondent, examines what happens when the scientific search for truth collides with politics--especially GOP politics. From stem cells to missile defense to evolution, the book chronicles the manipulation of research for partisan ends. Assistant Editor Julian Sanchez spoke...

Articles 2006-01-01

Don't ask, yet: gays in combat

THE PENTAGON has long argued that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which prevents openly gay soldiers from serving in the U.S. armed forces, is necessary to preserve unit cohesion. But in wartime--when cohesion matters most--the military may be happy to wink at gay soldiers if that will keep troops...

Articles 2006-01-01