| Elizabeth Hardwick: Writer, co-founder of 'The New York Review of ...
As she recounts in her one truly successful novel, Sleepless Nights (1979), her life in Manhattan was composed of "love and alcohol and clothes on the floor". She shared an apartment in the Hotel Schuyler on West 45th Street with a gay friend from Kentucky and cast off the strict Protestantism in which she had been raised in favour of a bohemian existence of uncomplicated love affairs and visits to the many night-clubs where jazz was regularly performed. The pages devoted to Billie Holiday in Sleepless Nights are among the most starkly beautiful she ever wrote. She talks of Billie's "luminous self-destruction", her "glittering, sombre and solitary" presence, of her "creamy lips, oily eyelids, violent perfume": Somehow she had retrieved from darkness the miracle of pure style.
US subprime losses grow, top Japan bank hit too
What we are starting to see is the flushing out of all these credit problems and an admission that there are losses,' said Mr Tom Atteberry, a partner at First Pacific Advisors, with assets under management of US$11 billion. 'This is a part of the healing process.' Damage was not contained to the United States. Japan's largest bank, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, may have lost as much as 50 billion yen (S$666 million) on subprime investments last year, up from the 4 billion yen it reported for the six months to September, according to executives with direct knowledge of the matter. Shares in Japan's big banks, which have ridden the credit crisis relatively unscathed so far, fell sharply in response. 'Sentiment is bad because no one knows if there will be further losses,' said Mr Koichi Ogawa, chief portfolio manager at Daiwa SB Investments.
'View' Panel Discusses Naming a Teddy Bear Jesus
Right, we had talked about Gillian Gibbons, who was the British teacher who let her children at the school name a teddy bear Muhammad. And we were talking about whether she was going to- JOY BEHAR: In the Sudan. SHEPHERD: In the Sudan and whether she should get the lashes or not- BEHAR: Which is a Muslim country. SHEPHERD: In the Muslim country, and she's been pardoned, so she will not get lashes, she will not get- [applause] BEHAR: She was about to go to jail also. SHEPHERD: She was going to jail too. BARBARA WALTERS: But, you know, we were, we were talking here, and, and I said well, I wonder that if in a public school here, a school teacher allowed, not allowed, but said that the children could name the teddy bear Jesus, would there be any reaction? And you- GOLDBERG: Only in a public school.
TOP WORLD NEWS PHOTOS
All of the exhumed bodies are believed to be those of Muslims from Srebrenica killed in July 1995 during the fall of the city. The remains will be identified by DNA. The exhumation of the mass grave began last month and is one of nine so-called secondary mass graves found in Kamenica, where Bosnian Serbs brought bodies from other sites to cover up the crime. Nov. 16: A blindfolded detainee is helped out of a vehicle at an Iraqi army compound in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, Iraq. The suspect was detained in a joint U.S. and Iraqi army operation on the western outskirts of Baqouba. Nov. 16: A Palestinian demonstrator in a wheelchair flees from tear gas fired by Israeli troops , not seen, during a demonstration against Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah.
Radio & TV Talk
The Regular Guys were a huge hit earlier this decade with men 18 to 54, a broad appeal that brought in huge bucks for Clear Channel and 96rock at the time. But in 2004, a few weeks after the Janet Jackson Super Bowl imbroglio, Wachs wanted to mock the whole situation by playing a porn star talking dirty backwards. But they taped it and it accidentally aired over a Honda ad. (I heard it!). Given the toxic atmosphere at the time, the Regular Guys were canned. But once the dust settled, 96rock hired them back a year later. Unfortunately, the pair were neutered by tougher FCC regulations which cut out the sex-related talk. Ratings never quite got back to the heights of 2002 to 2004. In October, 2006, Wachs taped sister station Viva 105.7's Yogi & Panda in the bathroom and aired it, mocking them incessantly.
Ghana 2008: Nations Cup diary
Number two, where have all the bolts gone? Ibrahim reckons the mechanics who changed all the tires a few days ago mustn't have screwed them on properly - so he heads off over the crest of the hill on a bolt hunt. An hour later he reappears with two of the six bolts and we decide to borrow three bolts from the other wheels. Problem number three turns out to be jack related - it doesn't work and only lifts the axle a few inches. Ibrahim's ingenious idea is to stop a passing vehicle to borrow a cutlass and dig a hole beneath the axle to fit the wheel. After two hours we're miraculously on the move again and make it to Kintampo - see its beautiful waterfall before pushing on to Tamale before nightfall and armed robbers cause us problems. .
BIG UNIT MAKING PROGRESS (2:23 p.m. ET)
This year second baseman Jeff Kent played the role of prickly judge Simon Cowell and Juan Pierre played the role of judge Randy Jackson. Nomar Garciaparra was the event's host, in essence taking the role of Ryan Seacrest.
As of Thursday afternoon, no winner was announced, though Kuroda's performance was memorable.
Kuroda is scheduled to start for the Dodgers for the first time on Friday against the Braves in Orlando, Fla. Though he is a major-league rookie, Kuroda, 32, pitched 11 seasons for the Hiroshima Carp in Japan.
"There's a curiosity for someone who is brand new but in a sense established too," Torre said. "It's something you want to see for yourself. Everything that I've heard about him is that he really competes well."
-- Jorge Arangure Jr., ESPN The Magazine
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In search of the perfect Hamlet
It's the most challenging role there is for a young actor. It's huge, it's emotionally and physically draining, and it requires a tremendous wit. I would love to see Johnny Depp do it - he has the wicked mischief that the part needs. I have several favourites, including my first - Classics Illustrated, a comic-book version. It saw him as a revenge hero. The first really vivid production I saw was Jonathan Pryce at the Royal Court. The restless internalising was the strongest I've seen. SAMUEL WEST Played Hamlet for the RSC, 2001-02 I loved Mark Rylance's first Hamlet, in 1989. He was unbelievably inventive, brilliantly lonely. I've seen the play about 20 times, but only once since I played it. It is the ultimate part for a young actor and you can never get it entirely right.
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Evaluating Self-Improvement Gurus
There are weird coincidences and synchronicities, a phenomenon first brought to my attention in the following dialogue from the 1984 cult classic Repo Man. Miller: A lot o' people don't realize what's really going on. They view life as a bunch o' unconnected incidents 'n things. They don't realize that there's this, like, lattice o' coincidence that lays on top o' everything. Give you an example; show you what I mean: Suppose you're thinkin' about a plate o' shrimp. Suddenly someone'll say, like, "plate," or "shrimp," or "plate o' shrimp" out of the blue, no explanation. No point in lookin' for one, either. It's all part of a cosmic unconsciousness. Otto: You eat a lot of acid, Miller, back in the hippie days? Miller: I'll give you another instance: You know how everybody's into weirdness right now? The first plate o' shrimp incident happens on January 3.
ViewDate.com Announces World's First Online Speed Dating Service
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Drysdale strikes back in duel for Olympics berth
Mahe Drysdale yesterday struck back at his great rival Rob Waddell in the race to represent New Zealand at this year's Beijing Olympics. The pair, the fastest scullers in the world, met in the North Island Championships on Lake Karapiro where Drysdale, the triple world champion, held off the famed last-quarter charge of Waddell, who took the Sydney Olympic title, to win by half a length. The pair's remarkable contest was sparked at the end of last year by Waddell's decision to search for a second Olympic gold following a seven-year spell as a winch grinder on New Zealand's America's Cup team. That decision means Drysdale is competing against his sporting hero, having given up rowing to concentrate on his university studies, only to take it up again after seeing Waddell win gold in Sydney in 2000.
Georgia island idyll
It's part of a brief but rich history built almost entirely around bodies of water. Formed 25,000 to 35,000 years ago by sediment from the Altamaha River, St. Simons was home to sundry native tribes before Spanish missions and then English settlements popped up in the 17th and early 18th centuries. When the two European nations waged the War of Jenkins' Ear, a key turning point was the Battle of Bloody Marsh in 1742, in which English, Scottish Highlander and Indian forces rebuffed the Spanish, prompting them to leave the island. A half-century later, St. Simons' "Southern live oaks" were felled to help build a new nation's first navy. Wars have touched the island for centuries; it was a base for torpedo bombers during World War II. But the most wrenching chapter in St.
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