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When Ann Coulter published Slander last year, she didn't just score a surprise No. 1 best seller; she also discovered an entire new audience hungry for her notoriously sharp-tongued, unabashedly right-wing rhetoric. Now she's back with Treason (Crown Forum; 355 pages), and as TIME's Lev Grossman discovered, she has in no way mellowed with...
Larry Gelbart is a Hollywood rarity. In a youth-obsessed town, Gelbart, an accomplished screenwriter and playwright, is busier than ever at 75. There's the film about Pancho Villa for HBO. A jazz song cycle at Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum. The sequel to The Candidate for Robert Redford. A new musical about Napoleon. A Las Vegas spectacular about Busby Berkeley...
Gelbart soon branched out from radio and television to theater and movies. He won his first Tony in 1963 for co-authoring A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and was nominated for an Oscar in 1978 for Oh, God! In 1974 he took home an Emmy...
...treat all our resources with more care," says Patricia Forkan, executive vice president of the Humane Society International. But the so-called Berlin Initiative infuriates as many as it pleases. Pro-whaling nations, led by Japan, Iceland and Norway, decry the IWC's gradual transformation from a small forum of whaling nations founded in 1946 to a 51-member, broad-based organization. "The IWC was set up for whaling," says Stefan Asmundsson, head of the commission's Icelandic delegation. "It's very clear that conservation is part of it, but conservation is there to ensure the continuation of whaling...
...year, hundreds of spirituality hunters?"flakes and fantasists," he writes, "running alongside dedicated altruists"?visit Dharamsala, where the Tibetan government-in-exile is based, and try earnestly to help the cause. Some of the more famous acolytes, such as actor Richard Gere, successfully raise the issue in any public forum they can. Others go local, offering free labor at the health or public-affairs offices and chanting at temples. A few go way too far: action hero Steven Seagal has claimed to be the incarnation of an important Tibetan monk...