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...Decatur Staleys play professional football. I don't care what anyone thinks; I'm not that old. But I did grow up in Wisconsin, where the last of the small town teams, the Green Bay Packers, claimed my childish heart and, to this day, my aging one. Romantically - and doubtless erroneously - I continue to believe that today's insanely well-paid Packers (representing a franchise worth hundreds of millions) have some near-mystical connection with pro-football's prehistoric days, when, if the players were lucky, they might get fifty or a hundred bucks in return for getting their brains...
...make an entrance at a dinner party being held in Shanghai in honor of the late Salvatore Ferragamo. Were he to have seen them, the "Shoemaker of Dreams," as he was known when he was crafting platforms and slippers for Hollywood icons like Elizabeth Taylor and Marilyn Monroe would doubtless have spun in his grave, fast enough to power the lights of the Bund, Shanghai's luxury strip...
...well, maybe our imaginary production executive is right. The elements for a successful comedy are all present and accounted for in Drillbit Taylor and doubtless word of them has been buzzing along the Internet for weeks. But elements are what Hollywood makes marketing campaigns out of, not entertaining movies. And the fact that this movie has been sent into the world on Easter weekend, when much of its population is preoccupied with piety, probably betokens a certain loss of faith in its cheerless impieties...
...have symbolic value but often lack substance. The solutions to indigenous people's problems are vastly more difficult than saying a few words. Prime Minister Rudd also failed to acknowledge the role of his Labor Party in originating almost all of the indigenous legislation that is now being condemned. Doubtless there will now be many claims for compensation by indigenous people. Will apologies also be made to the British children taken to orphanages in Australia last century, to internees during the world wars, to Pacific islanders kidnaped to work in the Queensland cane fields, to the unwed mothers who until...
...race. The risk of not doing so, the paper quoted a presidential advisor explaining, was taking a humiliating "slap in the face." Mindful of that peril, Neuilly's UMP brass teamed up with Jean Sarkozy on Sunday to announce they were dumping Martinon to launch a rival campaign - doubtless with the president's blessing. On Monday morning, Martinon called it quits in Neuilly, but did say Sarkozy had rejected his resignation as presidential spokesman...