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...That sounds like a surreal shifting of the gears. When did you see the final cut of An Education? The first time I watched it was three days before Sundance, actually. And I thought I was completely awful. I took my friend Zoe Kazan and her mom, and I was like, "Oh my God, I'm so boring! I don't do anything with my face!" I had never really watched myself before as the star of a film. I had been in supporting roles all the time, and [with those] you can come in and then disappear...
...study, Zhong and his colleagues took a subtler approach, but one that's likely to have more real-world implications. In the first part of their three-part experiment, they recruited 84 students and divided them between a brightly lit room with 10 fluorescent bulbs burning and a dimmer room with only four bulbs. The subjects were each given a brown envelope with $10 in singles and coins as well as an empty white envelope. They were all then told they had five minutes to complete a simple mathematical task, looking for pairs of numbers that added...
...demise. Sensing the populist anger that resulted in Scott Brown’s victory, Obama tried to tap into it, but his efforts necessarily failed; as an elected official, he was a participant in the Washington culture that the Tea Partiers despised, and the rest of Americans took his dramatic proclamations with the grain of salt most populism deserves. In other words, his plans and his populist rhetoric appealed to no one, least of all the Senate now blocking the proposed bank legislation...
There is no greater spectacle in the hamburger universe than the annual Rachael Ray Burger Bash, held at the South Beach Wine & Food Festival in Miami. At this year's gastronomic gathering, which took place on Feb. 25, I tried all the burgers and talked to all the chefs, and one thing is clear: the hamburger is at a creative crossroads. (See pictures of Rachael Ray's culinary career...
...Sunni party that opposes Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's Shi'ite-led governing coalition, is more worried about an élite counterterrorism unit run by Maliki's office, which he accuses of arresting scores of opposition politicians and government critics in Diyala. Two months ago, they took the deputy governor, Mohammad Hussein al-Joubouri, and nothing has been heard since about his case. "Of course it's totally political," says one of the governor's aides. "If he is really a terrorist, why didn't they arrest him before he was elected?" (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad...