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- CAIR Asks FEC to Probe Anti-Muslim DVDs Sent to Swing States
- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today announced that it has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission FEC over the distribution of an anti-Muslim film to 28 million homes in presidential election swing states. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations CAIR is urging the...
- Research articles 2008-09-23
- Poignant snapshot of life; YOUNG REVIEWERS 2008/09
- ME & Cilla started as a 10 minute play about a sexually confused boy and won the BBC and Live Theatre's 'Short Fuse' competition in 2005. Since then, writer Lee Mattinson has extended the play into a moving examination of modern-day north-eastern England. The Live Theatre provides the...
- Research articles 2008-06-18
- Critic's corner
- *Need a reminder of how fleeting our celebrity gossip obsessions tend to be? South Park (Comedy Central, tonight, 9:30 ET/PT) repeats the 2003 episode that viciously mocked all the fuss over the not-to-be marriage between Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. You remember, right? *On the night's...
- Research articles 2008-06-04
- TV SET IN WAYS
- OBSESSIVES beware... New BBC TV show, The Last Resort, will try to help six people kick their obsessions during a nineday retreat at Ballywalter, Co Down. Call 087 2982074 if you'd like to take part - but try not to watch it too often.
- Research articles 2008-05-11
- New Yorkers shred bad memories of 2007
- NEW YORK AFP — New Yorkers who suffered a tough 2007 took their anger out on photographs of ex-husbands, old letters and annoying cell phones on Friday, consigning their bad memories to a giant shredder. "I got rid of my ex-fiancee after five and a half years," said Pierre...
- Research articles 2007-12-28
- Observing Orwell: Big brother was watching
- WHILE KIM Philby and the Cambridge Five plundered British secrets for the Soviet Union during the 1930s and '40s, the Special Branch--Britain's version of the U.S. National Security Agency--kept its eyes on a different target: the democratic socialist writer Eric Blair, known to the police by his nom de plume...
- Research articles 2007-12-01
- The Astronaut Farmer.
- By Irv Slifkin WARNER Street: July 10 Prebook: June 5 > Genial family drama with a sensitive turn from Billy Bob Thornton. 'Frank Capra...
- Research articles 2007-05-21
- Leno's No. 1 fan, 'Tonight' and every night
- AS GLOZELL GREEN stood in line to see "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" for the 20th straight time last summer, the man himself got wind of the streak and came outside to see her. "Are you stalking me? I heard I had a stalker out here,"...
- Research articles 2007-05-17
- ON THE SCENE; 7 WTC FASCINATES THE FASHIONABLE.(Brief article)
- Byline: BRENNER THOMAS The peripatetic fashion flock seems to have a new architectural obsession: 7 World Trade Center, the first of the iconic towers to be rebuilt after 9/11. The shimmering, parallelogram-shaped office structure has been the site of a series of high-gloss...
- Research articles 2007-02-12
- The price of obsession
- Just how much pressure does it take for a person to snap -- to abandon reason, family, the entire structure of their life in a desperate emotional quest for the unattainable? Whatever it is, the bizarre tale of Lisa Nowak, stellar astronaut turned stalker and perhaps...
- Research articles 2007-02-08
- Progress does happen . . . just look to Kosovo REALPOLITIK:
- THINKING about the final status of Kosovo, which is due to be announced this week by the United Nations, it was suddenly like old times again. Elections are taking place in Serbia today and the decision on Kosovo's future will be made later in the week. Both are linked and,...
- Research articles 2007-01-21
- DAVOS: Princeton Historian - When Globalisers Lost Their Nerve - The Current Malaise Of Globalisation Relates To A Growing Sense Of Internal Paralysis In The Major Industrial Countries And The Sense That Power Politics Have Returned, Says Harold James.
- Byline: HAROLD JAMES In the 1990s, globalisation was a red rag for intellectually disaffected bulls, but no-one else was too excited. Today, the big ideological debates about globalisation are over. The massive demonstrations that disrupted the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle,...
- Research articles 2007-01-01
- Astronomy widgets.
- People may debate whether Tiger's Dashboard is useful, but as an outer-space enthusiast I'm delighted to be able to feed my obsession with some free widgets. From solar flares to supernovas, haym37 Software's Astronomy Picture of the Day (macworld.com/1484) reveals a gorgeous photo from NASA every...
- Research articles 2006-09-01
- Short comes up big in satirical 'Fame Becomes Me'
- NEW YORK -- In case you haven't been paying attention, pop culture has pretty much devolved into a contradiction in terms. Martin Short seems to grasp this, but for some reason, he's not angry about it. Were I in Short's shoes, with a three-decade resume as a multifaceted stage...
- Research articles 2006-08-22
- Queen of the small screen.(Survey)
- Byline: Ann Marie Kerwin Watercooler has had its obsessions this year, we admit it. The various scandals and chair-swappings of TV personalities are like catnip to us: Katie Couric, Dan Rather, Star Jones, Rosie O'Donnell, Charlie Gibson, Diane Sawyer. So imagine how delighted we...
- Research articles 2006-08-14
- Things get curiouser and curiouser as Marilyn Manson makes Lewis Carroll movie
- BERLIN AFP — Gothic US rocker Marilyn Manson announced at the Berlin Film Festival that he plans to direct a film based on the diary of Lewis Carroll in which he will play the part of the writer of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". Manson, his hair jet-black and his...
- Research articles 2006-02-12
- Trawling For Tag-Sale Treasure
- Chris Heiska of Lusby, Md., collects old shaving brushes, tin lunchboxes and antique ice-cream scoops. John Schroeder's passion is vintage radios; he's bought more than 100. Anyone can feed his obsessions on eBay, but for some collectors, there's nothing like the rush of rummaging through a great yard sale. "It's...
- Research articles 2005-06-13
- Australian teenager goes off the rails taking trams for joyrides
- MELBOURNE, Australia, AFP — An Australian teenager who took a stolen tram for a joyride and picked up several passengers along the way had an obsession that got the better of him, police said. The 15-year-old allegedly stole two trams within the space of two days from a depot...
- Research articles 2005-04-17
- John Berryman
- John Berryman The life of John Berryman (1914-1972) is at the center of his poetry. Dealing with obsession, tragedy, desire, ironic comedy, and the deep pain of life itself, Berryman's poetry is both brilliant and tormented. With The Dream Songs, which took him 13 years to complete, Berryman...
- Research articles 2005-01-01
- vital statistics
- * The BBC broadcasts eight-and-a-half hours of home improvement programmes every week on its two terrestrial channels. The nation's obsession with DIY also means it has now become the fourth largest retail market after food, clothing and electrical items.* Not only does China have the largest population in the world...
- Research articles 2004-11-25
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