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...school "is very bad." The only entertainment for kids and adults is endless television. In most houses, small private generators keep the TVs going through the daily blackouts. With school out and summer heat above 110°F every day, young people stay up to watch TV in the cool of the night and then sleep till noon. Many Baghdad kids, notes the doctor, have acquired a pasty yellow pallor. Some are getting fat from lack of exercise. His son, an engineer who refused to work for Saddam and now cannot find a job, is hugely obese from years of idleness...
Move over, Kabbalah, there's a new sect in show biz. As JON HEDER, who plays a geeky Idahoan in the teen sleeper Napoleon Dynamite, explains, "Dude, it's cool to be Mormon." Heder and Dynamite's writer-director, Jared Hess, are members of the Mormon church, as are most of the film's cast and crew. RYAN GOSLING, the brooding heartthrob in the summer weepy The Notebook, grew up Mormon in Canada. But the toast (nonalcoholic) of Salt Lake City this July has to be Jeopardy! mega-champ KEN JENNINGS, who had won a record...
...worksheet that listed Martha's stock holdings at Merrill Lynch. ?The document,? he says in a Feb. 18 message, ?was just [shown on a news program playing] on the big screen in Times Square saying an undisclosed expert was going to testify. Ohh s___. Would have made a cool pic for my office or jail cell.? Martha's lawyers have seized on this as evidence that Stewart planned to give false testimony the next day in court...
...distinctly of his class, neighborhood and generation. But he has been brilliant and relentless, rather than lucky and knockabout, in his political career - which started the day he joined the Labor party as a boy. He's a striver and a bookworm who's never had a brush with cool...
...life story would make a pretty cool movie. The son and nephew of GM factory workers, Moore was educated by nuns and Jesuits, and at 14 he briefly attended a seminary and had thoughts of becoming a priest. Eagle scout; expert hunter; good student. After disagreeing with a policy at his high school, he ran for the Davison County school board--and won, making him, at 18, one of the youngest elected officials in the nation...