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...brilliant Monty Python sketch "The All-England Summarize Proust Competition." Some brave attempts from this website include "Society Sucks", "Mmmm...cookies", and "Marcel's not gay." So what have we learned? What does Proust teach us about time, memory, love, feeling? The way that he's referenced in pop culture now would have you think that he knows either nothing or everything. With such a hodgepodge of Proustian meanings, references, ideas and impressions being thrown around in the media, it's difficult to synthesize a clear, significant lesson from Proust...
...that he suffered were the best times, since they were the times that made him who he was. Dwayne listens intently and concludes that in life you have to "do what you love, and f--- the rest". If there really is one lesson to be taken from Proust in pop culture, I believe Little Miss Sunshine has found...
...Before You Pop That Pill Are you freaked out by the insert that comes with your medication? Here's what you really need to know about those warnings, as well as other pill-related issues
...often written with a dose of the supernatural. A $180 million market in 2005, U.S. manga is quickly getting comfortable tucked under the arms of young readers, and major publishing houses are rushing into the category. "Books are not a growth business," says Milton Griepp, CEO of ICv2.com a pop-culture news site. "But the manga category has tripled in the last three years. That gets their attention...
...Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. A bubbling plot by British citizens to blow up airplanes had come to a boil in the past three days, and as British authorities arrested dozens of suspects around London, it was Chertoff's job to coordinate the U.S. defenses. Scary intelligence reports pop up all the time, but this particular terror operation got close enough to being carried out that it rattled even the normally sedate Chertoff. "Very seldom do things get to me," he told Rep. Peter King, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, in a phone call late Wednesday...