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...Peter's Square who cheer the Pope have the pill in their pockets," Karl Cardinal Lehmann, head of the German Bishop's Conference, told the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung earlier this year. The Greens may have had a disappointing result in the German election, but environmentalism remains a core European value. And there, perhaps, is the point. So much of '60s dogma has become mainstream that young Europeans have nothing to protest about. Rebellion has been transformed into angst. The politics of passion has given way to quotidian worries about jobs, pay and pensions. (You can't despise capitalism and enjoy...
...socially than in serving the institution's interests. (One charge leveled against Munitz, which he denies, is that he helped arrange the sale of Getty-owned property to billionaire Eli Broad, a close friend, at $700,000 less than its appraised value.) "Barry wasn't very interested in the core mission of the organization," says a former staff member. "He was even somewhat bored with it." Last year the Getty lost director Deborah Gribbon, a 20-year veteran, over differences with Munitz, who came to the museum in 1998. Other staff members were alienated when he hired as his chief...
...wife--Sex and the City actress Sarah Jessica Parker--and a soon-to-be-3-year-old son, but Lane's personal life is famously turbulent. His father was an alcoholic, and his mother suffered from mental illness. He has struggled to find a steady partner. There's a core of insecurity there. Talking about The Odd Couple's record advance ticket sales, Lane can only focus on his fear of the inevitable backlash...
Before I leave this subject, I want to warn you that the promises you will hear from antiaging practitioners are going to become more extravagant in the coming years. A number of hard-core molecular biologists claim to have identified genetic mechanisms that control the aging process as well as ways of manipulating them. These researchers believe that the biological clock can be stopped or turned back, and as antiaging doctors learn about this work, they will use it to their advantage...
...Most conservatives never liked Bush’s hallmark “compassionate conservatism” catchphrase—does it mean that real conservatism is heartless?—but there was always hope that somewhere, buried beneath the steel tariffs and bloated highway bills, there was a core of actual philosophy...