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...said that children should be seen, not heard, but that expression is sometimes better applied to parents. Until recently the most egregious parental oversharing was usually your sister-in-law's Christmas letter or the guy with the endless stream of baby photos. But there's a new species of chatty dad and mom: the hipster parent-memoirist...
...SHARPTON, black activist who ran for President in 2004, on Joe Biden's calling fellow 2008 presidential hopeful Barack Obama "the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy." Biden apologized...
Gilbert Arenas, wonder guard of the Washington Wizards, goes by a superhero nickname, Agent Zero, as in the number on his uniform. Here's a more appropriate appellation: Agent Weirdo. Why? This is a guy who at halftime of one game took a shower--fully uniformed--to cool down. He tickles the underarm of a teammate before tip-off for good luck. His addictions are many and, Arenas admits, "pointless," including bad DVDs, vintage jerseys and his latest, crappy basketballs. Arenas is collecting the synthetic balls the NBA unveiled and dumped this season after players complained about cutting their fingers...
...mimic living at a high altitude, so that when you're at low altitude--say, on a basketball court in Washington--you can breathe easily. 2) Hold extra practice sessions at midnight. 3) Pull pranks on fellow players and dare them to retaliate. "Don't play with a guy who doesn't have a conscience about things," Arenas warns. During a road trip, Arenas filled teammate Andray Blatche's hotel bathtub with coffee. And 4) dream of a post-playing career in advertising. He has strange ideas for commercials for his shoe company, Adidas, whose tagline is "Impossible is nothing...
...donation from Bernie Ecclestone, boss of Formula One motor racing, after suggestions, denied by both sides, that his largesse might have influenced the government's decision to exempt the sport from a ban on tobacco sponsorship. But back then, Blair was untouchable. "I'm a pretty straight sort of guy," he told the BBC's Humphrys in an early encounter. Today that sort of charm doesn't wash with a public made cynical by revelations about dodgy dossiers on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction...