Actor Tim Robbins, who has recently been in the news because of his split with longtime wife Susan Sarandon, is known generally as an activist for liberal causes. So why exactly did he give $5,000 to 10 Republican Senate and House nominees in 2006, including Rep. Michele Bachmann? Let's take a look.
Actor Tim Robbins, who has recently been in the news because of his split with longtime wife Susan Sarandon, is known generally as an activist for liberal causes.
So why exactly did he give $5,000 to 10 Republican Senate and House nominees in 2006, including Rep. Michele Bachmann? Let's take a look.
But there must be some explanation. I just can't believe that Robbins would do something like that knowingly. Temporary insanity? La Chine dorme. Laisse la dormir. Quand la Chine s'éveillera, le monde tremblera.
Ancient "Woolworths" sites follow a precise geometrical pattern, according to Matt Parker of the School of Mathematical Sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, who analyzed the locations of the 800 UK Woolworths stores and ignored the vast majority to allow the patterns to emerge. He explains that the study is based on the work of Tom Brooks (a retired marketing executive of Honiton, Devon) who found similar patterns in prehistoric monuments across the UK.
The Argentine musician Sandro, an early Latin American rocker who matured into a ballad singer, has died aged 64.He died from complications from heart and lung transplant surgery, doctors at a hospital in the western Argentine city of Mendoza said. The singer, whose real name was Roberto Sanchez, began his rock career in the 1960s in the style of Elvis Presley. He later developed into a ballad singer with a distinctive style and a strong following across Latin America.
The Argentine musician Sandro, an early Latin American rocker who matured into a ballad singer, has died aged 64.
He died from complications from heart and lung transplant surgery, doctors at a hospital in the western Argentine city of Mendoza said.
The singer, whose real name was Roberto Sanchez, began his rock career in the 1960s in the style of Elvis Presley.
He later developed into a ballad singer with a distinctive style and a strong following across Latin America.
It may not be one of the great remaining mysteries, on a par with the nature of dark matter or the origins of the universe, but the question of how many women Warren Beatty, 72, has slept with certainly seems to have got New York's media-land in a froth.Peter Biskind, Beatty's new biographer, estimates that the famously seductive star of Bonnie and Clyde and Reds has notched up 12,775 sexual conquests, including Isabelle Adjani, Diane Keaton and Madonna. If true, that is impressive. Don Giovanni could only claim a lacklustre 2,065, according to Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte.
It may not be one of the great remaining mysteries, on a par with the nature of dark matter or the origins of the universe, but the question of how many women Warren Beatty, 72, has slept with certainly seems to have got New York's media-land in a froth.
Peter Biskind, Beatty's new biographer, estimates that the famously seductive star of Bonnie and Clyde and Reds has notched up 12,775 sexual conquests, including Isabelle Adjani, Diane Keaton and Madonna. If true, that is impressive. Don Giovanni could only claim a lacklustre 2,065, according to Mozart's librettist, Lorenzo Da Ponte.
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A YouTube video of "The Most Useless Machine EVER!" is proving popular among those who'd like to have a robotic box whose only purpose is to turn itself off:
France's right-wing leader stands accused of political bodysnatching with a plan to move the author's remains to the Panthéon - burial place of the country's establishmentAlbert Camus had the anguished good looks of a doomed film star, not a writer or philosopher. He died a doomed film star's death, aged 47, when his powerful car skidded on an icy road 100 miles south of Paris and struck a tree on 4 January 1960. Fifty years on, Camus - writer, resistance hero, philanderer and goalkeeper - remains one of the most popular of non-populist writers in the world, and one of the hardest to define. Leftist or libertarian? Novelist or existentialist philosopher? Courageous humanist or heartless womaniser? Like the protagonist of one of his best-known books (L'Etranger), Albert Camus remains an outsider, and any attempt to interpret or categorise him can still cause trouble.President Nicolas Sarkozy, an avid Camus reader since his youth, has blundered into this difficult territory. He wants to claim Albert Camus for the nation, by moving his body to the Panthéon in Paris, the last resting place of great Frenchmen (and of one great French woman). The suggestion has raised a wonderfully French intellectual storm. How dare a right-wing President try to snatch the body of a left-wing hero? (Camus, unlike his sometime friend Jean-Paul Sartre, was never truly a hero of the French left, but no matter). How dare the anti-intellectual President become an intellectual grave-digger and place the Great Outsider inside the secular temple of the Officially Great and Good?
Albert Camus had the anguished good looks of a doomed film star, not a writer or philosopher. He died a doomed film star's death, aged 47, when his powerful car skidded on an icy road 100 miles south of Paris and struck a tree on 4 January 1960. Fifty years on, Camus - writer, resistance hero, philanderer and goalkeeper - remains one of the most popular of non-populist writers in the world, and one of the hardest to define. Leftist or libertarian? Novelist or existentialist philosopher? Courageous humanist or heartless womaniser?
Like the protagonist of one of his best-known books (L'Etranger), Albert Camus remains an outsider, and any attempt to interpret or categorise him can still cause trouble.
President Nicolas Sarkozy, an avid Camus reader since his youth, has blundered into this difficult territory. He wants to claim Albert Camus for the nation, by moving his body to the Panthéon in Paris, the last resting place of great Frenchmen (and of one great French woman). The suggestion has raised a wonderfully French intellectual storm. How dare a right-wing President try to snatch the body of a left-wing hero? (Camus, unlike his sometime friend Jean-Paul Sartre, was never truly a hero of the French left, but no matter). How dare the anti-intellectual President become an intellectual grave-digger and place the Great Outsider inside the secular temple of the Officially Great and Good?
On January 4, 1960, Albert Camus died at the age of 47 in a car accident, cutting short the life of the iconic French writer, philosopher and journalist whose legacy lives on today. In 1957, the author of "L'étranger" ("The Stranger", 1942) and "La Peste" ("The Plague", 1947) became the second-youngest writer ever to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He remains to this day the laureate who lived the shortest life. In the lead up to the 50-year anniversary of his death, Camus' name has once again been at the forefront of public debate, but this time not for his writing and philosophical views. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed in November to move the author's remains into the Panthéon, a vast monument in the capital where France's most honoured and revered individuals are buried in Paris. According to Sarkozy, "This would be an extraordinary symbol."
On January 4, 1960, Albert Camus died at the age of 47 in a car accident, cutting short the life of the iconic French writer, philosopher and journalist whose legacy lives on today. In 1957, the author of "L'étranger" ("The Stranger", 1942) and "La Peste" ("The Plague", 1947) became the second-youngest writer ever to receive the Nobel Prize for literature. He remains to this day the laureate who lived the shortest life.
In the lead up to the 50-year anniversary of his death, Camus' name has once again been at the forefront of public debate, but this time not for his writing and philosophical views. French President Nicolas Sarkozy proposed in November to move the author's remains into the Panthéon, a vast monument in the capital where France's most honoured and revered individuals are buried in Paris. According to Sarkozy, "This would be an extraordinary symbol."
As the one truly universal nation, the United States continually refreshes its connections with the rest of the world--through languages, family, education, business--in a way no other nation does, or will. The countries that are comparably open--Canada, Australia--aren't nearly as large; those whose economies are comparably large--Japan, unified Europe, eventually China or India--aren't nearly as open. The simplest measure of whether a culture is dominant is whether outsiders want to be part of it... Everything we know about future industries and technologies suggests that they will offer ever-greater rewards to flexibility, openness, reinvention, "crowdsourcing," and all other manifestations of individuals and groups keenly attuned to their surroundings. Everything about American society should be hospitable toward those traits--and should foster them better and more richly than other societies can. The American advantage here is broad and atmospheric, but it also depends on two specific policies that, in my view, are the absolute pillars of American strength: continued openness to immigration, and a continued concentration of universities that people around the world want to attend.
Everything we know about future industries and technologies suggests that they will offer ever-greater rewards to flexibility, openness, reinvention, "crowdsourcing," and all other manifestations of individuals and groups keenly attuned to their surroundings. Everything about American society should be hospitable toward those traits--and should foster them better and more richly than other societies can. The American advantage here is broad and atmospheric, but it also depends on two specific policies that, in my view, are the absolute pillars of American strength: continued openness to immigration, and a continued concentration of universities that people around the world want to attend.
