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Wednesday, July 25, 2012
Thursday, July 19, 2012
Libya's independents might emerge as third power
In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 photo, Mahmoud Jibril, a secular former prime minister, is interviewed by the Associated Press in Tripoli, Libya. Libya?s elections bring in a large new political generation of independents _ businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles _ who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Ghadafi?s fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country?s course. Both a coalition led by Jibril and Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to woo them, but many of the independents are trying to form their own coalition, distrusting both sides. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
In this Wednesday, July 11, 2012 photo, Mahmoud Jibril, a secular former prime minister, is interviewed by the Associated Press in Tripoli, Libya. Libya?s elections bring in a large new political generation of independents _ businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles _ who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Ghadafi?s fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country?s course. Both a coalition led by Jibril and Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to woo them, but many of the independents are trying to form their own coalition, distrusting both sides. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo)
FILE - In this Sunday, Oct. 23, 2011 file photo, Libyan National Transitional Council military commander of Tripoli Abdel Hakim Belhaj waves prior to his speech at Saha Kish Square in Benghazi, Libya, as Libya's transitional government declare liberation of Libya after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of longtime leader Moammar Gadhafi. Libya?s elections bring in a large new political generation of independents _ businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles _ who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Ghadafi?s fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country?s course. Both a coalition led by secular former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril and Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to woo them, but many of the independents are trying to form their own coalition, distrusting both sides.(AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)
FILE - In this Thursday, July 5, 2012 file photo, a Libyan Muslim Brotherhood supporter runs holding a flag of the party in Martyr's Square in Tripoli, Libya. Libya?s elections bring in a large new political generation of independents _ businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles _ who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Ghadafi?s fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country?s course. Both a coalition led by secular former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril and Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to woo them, but many of the independents are trying to form their own coalition, distrusting both sides. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) ? Libya's elections have brought in a large new political generation of independents ? businessmen, activists, former judges and former exiles ? who form the largest bloc in the first elected national assembly after Moammar Gadhafi's fall and will be the big wild card in determining the country's course.
Both a coalition led by the secular former Prime Minister Mahmoud Jibril and a rival bloc of Islamists led by the Muslim Brotherhood are trying to woo them, but many of the independents are trying to form their own coalition, distrusting both sides.
The results from Libya's landmark election, announced late Tuesday, open a phase of political maneuvering to establish a more solid transitional leadership of the oil-rich North African nation that has been largely rudderless and chaotic for eight months since the death of Gadhafi in the civil war that brought down his regime.
The maneuvering takes place in a country that is effectively a political blank slate after decades of rule by Gadhafi, who stripped it of institutions and political movements and considered democracy a form of tyranny. All Libya's political parties are new, created in recent months, and most of the candidates who ran in this month's elections were unknowns with little political experience or clear ideologies.
The one clear message from the election was a surprise rejection of Islamist parties, which performed below expectations as Libyans bucked a regional trend set by its neighbors Egypt and Tunisia, where mass uprisings that toppled leaders brought Islamists to power.
The election commission announced the official results 10 days after nearly 1.7 Libyans cast their ballots to select a 200-member assembly that will serve as a parliament and put together a government until a new constitution is written.
Jibril's National Forces Alliance secured the biggest chunk of the 80 assembly seats allocated to political parties ? 39, a major win over the Muslim Brotherhood, which came in a second place with only 17 seats. The Homeland Party, another Islamist group led by former jihadist and rebel commander Abdel-Hakim Belhaj got none of the party seats, despite a large and expensive election campaign nationwide.
But both Jibril's coalition and the Brotherhood remain only small portions of the assembly since the remaining 120 seats were set aside for independents. Among them were some who were fielded by Jibril's coalition or by the Islamists without using their party names. But the majority of them have no political affiliation and are up in the air for either side to try to bring into alliances.
Wins by pro-Brotherhood independents bring the group's bloc in parliament to at most 37, according to Nizar Kiwan, a pro-Brotherhood independent who won a seat in Tripoli. Jibril's coalition backed 100 independents in the race, but it was not yet clear how many of them won so the final size of his bloc was not known. Jibril's deputy Abdel-Rahman al-Shater ran as independent and won a seat in Tripoli.
Kawan suggested that the Brotherhood would seek to work with its rivals to form a broad coalition.
The Brotherhood knows that "polarization won't benefit anyone," he said. "This is an era of transformation where the broad headline is consensus and national unity."
But among the true independents, there is considerable mistrust of both sides. In their eyes, the Brotherhood are seen as too ideological and power hungry. Some also see Jibril as too connected to Gadhafi's regime, in which for a time he served as an economic adviser close to Gadhafi's son Seif al-Islam before breaking with him and eventually joining the revolution. His critics view him as opportunistic, floating promises to appease multiple sides, including remnants of the old regime. Jibril himself could not run in the election since the rules barred members of the transitional administration that ran the country since Libya's fall.
Several independents spoke to Associated Press said that they are working on joining ranks and forming their own bloc.
"We are trying to create a third way," said Saleh Gawouda, a prominent political activist and writer who won a seat in Libya's second largest city, Benghazi. "The parties are trying to rally independents but until now they only met with nine or something, not big deal."
"This new coalition will be a nationalist one," he said.
Gomaa Atiqa, a well known rights advocate who won in Misrata, the third largest city, also said he was trying to collect independents in a coalition to "achieve balance and limit struggle of power inside parliament. We need to make balance."
"People want to get out of the robe of ideology and slogans. They are sick of slogans after the painful experience they passed through under the old regime," he said.
The rivalry between Jibril's camp and the Brotherhood runs deep. Islamists have loudly denounced Jibril, accusing him of being a member of the old regime. The grand mufti of Libya, the country's highest cleric, urged Libyans not to vote for those who won't serve Islamic Shariah law in a religious edict days before the election.
The Islamists "never trusted him either because of his ideology, his connections or the way he is trying to win everyone and how he is easygoing with a sector of Libyans who didn't join the revolution from the beginning," said Mohammed el-Megarif, a former exiled opposition figures who new National Front party won three seats.
He said the two rivals' attempts to win independents were only sharpening divisions.
"This polarization is unhealthy," he said, adding that his party refused to join ranks with Islamists.
However, analysts say the Brotherhood and Jibril will have to reach some sort of understanding to prevent any backlash from the multiple militias in the country that have degrees of loyalty to each.
The top commander of one of Libya's biggest militia, the Feb. 17 brigade, Fawzi Abu-Katef, is a Brotherhood member. The Islamist Belhaj commands another militia group in Tripoli. Jibril is believed to be widely supported by militias in the mountain town of Zintan.
"They will have to sit together and talk because of what we can call the balance of terror in the street," said Fathi Ben-Essa, a political analyst.
The new assembly will replace the outgoing National Transitional Council, which led a messy transition since Gahdafi's fall.
The head of the assembly will act as head of the state while the assembly will serve as the legislature. It will also put together a Cabinet to govern until a new constitution is drafted by a 60-member panel, which will be selected either by the assembly or by direct popular vote.
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Friday, July 13, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012
HBT's Dispatches from KC: A whirlwind tour
HardballTalk?s Drew Silva is filing regular stories from this year?s MLB All-Star festivities in KC.?Part One.?Part Two.?Part Three.?Part Four. Part Five.
When I picked up my press packet Saturday from the will call window next to Kauffman Stadium?s Gate C, it included an?invitation?to something called the ?2012 MLB All-Star Gala? ? to be held in a nearby tent after the Home Run Derby late Monday night.
I presumed it was another event for sponsors to strut their stuff and give out free samples to fans. It wasn?t.
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Through the security gates and past a giant glass statue that looked like something off the set of a Superman movie, I entered the best party I?ve ever attended (well, since college). There were three stages ? all featuring blues and jazz bands ? and open bars at every turn. I ate candied bacon, expertly-prepared cowboy ribeye and slices of roasted duck while chatting with the industry people I recognized and meeting the ones I didn?t.
Frank Thomas dished out hugs and drank aluminum Budweiser bottles, posing for pictures whenever asked. I discussed the Justin Upton trade rumors with Arizona Republic beat writer Nick Piecoro and the underrated D.C. nightlife with Adam Kilgore of the Washington Post. The tent didn?t clear out until just after 1 a.m.
I?received?a gift as I left ? a commemorative All-Star baseball resting atop a gold crown ? and shook my head in?disbelief?on the long walk through the then-nearly-empty Kauffman and Arrowhead Stadium lots.
?Did you have a decent time?? asked an elderly man in a yellow security polo, directing what little was left of the Derby and Gala traffic. ?Rarely had better,? I responded, completely meaning every word of it.
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Today I toured the Boulevard Brewery with ESPN?s Amanda Rykoff, a must-follow on Twitter for any baseball fan. We got to try out a test brew called ?Hoppy Wheat,? which tasted even better than it probably sounds. Word is it?s being released to the public via small shipments in about three weeks.
After the tour and?subsequent?sampling we hit up Danny Edward?s BBQ on the reccomendation of our brewery guide. The burnt ends were melt-in-your-mouth terrific and the smoky baked beans contained chunks of pulled pork. I had never heard of the place and my cousin who has lived in this town for 24 years has never been, but it was as good as any barbecue joint I?ve tried on this trip. That?s Kansas City for you. Go off the beaten path and you?re still in pretty great shape.
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As I sit out in left field tonight watching the end of the All-Star Game, I can?t help but feel reflective.
Between the first-time press box experience, the up-close-and-personal media day and the many beers and plates of world-class barbecue in between, this past week has been a spectacular whirlwind.
I fell deeply in love all over again with this supposed cowtown. I exchanged dialogue with some of my idols in the baseball-writing profession. I got an email from Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli, exclaiming that he was ?LOVING? my work. And I was given the freedom to share it all in whatever way I saw fit.
?Bless my heart, bless my soul, didn?t think I?d make it to 22 years old,? belts Alabama Shakes lead singer Brittany Howard in a track called ?Hold On? that I?ve been spinning with regularity since?my trip first began in suburban St. Louis. I didn?t have many well-thought-out goals as a kid. I could never envision myself as a grown up ? with a job and a level of respect from peers ? so I never tried to. Now I can?t wait for what?s next.
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Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Where Are Justin Bieber's Taylor Swift, Kanye West Collabs?
Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, tells MTV News unreleased tunes 'didn't make sense' for Believe.
By Jocelyn Vena
<P><a href="http://www.mtv.com/music/artist/bieber_justin/artist.jhtml">Justin Bieber</a> enlisted all types of artists to work with him on his latest musical endeavor, <a href="/news/articles/1687691/justin-bieber-believe-album-details.jhtml"><i>Believe</i></a>. While many of those <a href="/news/articles/1688207/justin-bieber-believe-six-degrees.jhtml">hip-hop leaning collaborations</a> made the album, there were a number of other duets that got left on the cutting-room floor.</P><P>So, what exactly happened to those tracks? MTV News got the full scoop from Bieber's manager, Scooter Braun, during a recent interview.</P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Scooter Braun On The Evolution Of Justin Bieber" id="vid:791929" width="415" height="255"></div><p></P><P>Bieber shared the studio with country cutie <a href="/news/articles/1683050/justin-bieber-taylor-swift-collaboration.jhtml">Taylor Swift to work on a song</a>. In fact, <a href="/news/articles/1683542/justin-bieber-taylor-swift-duet-selena-gomez.jhtml">his lady love, Selena Gomez</a>, even had some high praise for the never-released track. In the end, the Swift tune just didn't fit in with the final vibe of the album, Braun explained: "It didn't go on <i>Believe</i>, because there's another record they want to work on. So, it just didn't make sense at this time, and the song they did just didn't make sense on this album."</P><P>In addition to Swift, Bieber was also trying to make something happen with <a href="/news/articles/1683753/justin-bieber-adam-levine-supergroup.jhtml">Maroon 5 leading man Adam Levine</a>. "We talked with Adam Levine about doing stuff," Braun recalled. "And he wanted to, but with everything else, we could just never get the studio time in together."</P><P>Then there was the highly anticipated collaboration between <a href="/news/articles/1684085/justin-bieber-kanye-west-studio.jhtml">Bieber and Kanye West</a>. Despite being pictured in the studio with Yeezy, in the end, Bieber's track with the rapper "didn't make sense at this time," Braun said.</P><P>While whatever those two cooked up in the studio might forever remain a mystery, <a href="/news/articles/1684496/justin-bieber-kim-kardashian-kanye-west.jhtml">Bieber recalled just what Kanye</a> had in mind for the pop superstar's musical evolution. "Basically, he was just talking about going out of the box and doing things that are different," he said. "And he's like, 'I want to just make you cool.' He wants to just basically do records that people wouldn't necessarily think I would do."</P><P><i>Which Justin Bieber collaboration do you hope is released someday? Tell us in the comments!</i></P><P></p><div class="player-placeholder right" title="Justin Bieber Proving His Haters Wrong With 'Good Music'" id="vid:793035.id:1687833" width="415" height="255"></div><p></p>
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Led by Harper & Trout, a record 5 rookie All-Stars
National League's Bryce Harper, of the Washington Nationals, warms up during MLB All-Star baseball batting practice, Monday, July 9, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
National League's Bryce Harper, of the Washington Nationals, warms up during MLB All-Star baseball batting practice, Monday, July 9, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Los Angeles Angels' Mike Trout, left, slides past Baltimore Orioles catcher Matt Wieters for a run on a single by Torii Hunter in the third inning of?a baseball game in Baltimore, Tuesday, June 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)
American League's Miguel Cabrera, of the Detroit Tigers, left, Billy Butler, of the Kansas City Royals, and Prince Fielder, of the Tigers, talk during MLB All-Star baseball batting practice, Monday, July 9, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
National League's Jay Bruce, of the Cincinnati Reds, Matt Cain, of the San Francisco Giants, and Craig Kimbrel, of the Atlanta Braves, talk in the outfield during MLB All-Star baseball batting practice, Monday, July 9, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
American League's Josh Hamilton, of the Texas Rangers, warms up during MLB All-Star baseball batting practice, Monday, July 9, 2012, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) ? Ryan Cook thought about the assembled stars and wondered whether he belonged.
"Sometimes I'm like, 'Huh, I don't know,'" Oakland's rookie closer said before adding: "When we get on the field, I think I fit in just fine."
He is among a record five rookie All-Stars picked for Tuesday night's game, joined by Washington outfielder Bryce Harper, Los Angeles Angels outfielder Mike Trout, Texas pitcher Yu Darvish and Arizona pitcher Wade Miley.
When Miley arrived for spring training, he wasn't thinking about taking his place among the Jeters and Verlanders.
"I was kind of packed to go to Reno," he said. "I was surprised I made the team and in the same sense thrilled."
Before coming to the U.S. during the offseason, Darvish was a five-time All-Star in Japan's Pacific League. Those All-Star games are nothing like this one.
"They build up this event a lot more here," he said through a translator. "I know how special it is to be selected."
Harper, just 19, and the 20-year-old Trout form baseball's youthful dynamic duo.
Harper is the youngest position player in All-Star history and a key part of the Washington Nationals' emergence as a first-place team. Trout, a year older, is leading the American League in hitting and helping the Los Angeles Angels turn around their season after a sloppy start.
Coincidentally, both came up to the major leagues on April 28, Harper for his debut and Trout for his return following a pair of stints last year.
In a room full of baseball's best, even the veterans are taking notice of Harper and Trout.
"Speed. Power. Excitement. Youth. Energy," Yankees center fielder Curtis Granderson said. "If they are able to stay healthy, they can completely transform the game as they get, five, 10, 15 years of big league time."
For now, both will start Tuesday night's game on the bench.
With the result determining home-field advantage in the World Series for the 10th straight year, AL manager Ron Washington will start reigning MVP and Cy Young Award winner Justin Verlander. The NL's Tony La Russa, the first inactive All-Star manager since the AL's Bob Lemon in 1979, chose San Francisco's Matt Cain ? coming off a perfect game last month ? over knuckleballer R.A. Dickey of the New York Mets.
Trout was on a flight from Salt Lake City to Cleveland when he saw on Twitter that Harper was being called up the same day. Trout hadn't let many people know he was joining the big league team.
"Knowing he was getting called up that same day was pretty funny," Trout said.
A son of former Minnesota minor league infielder Jeff Trout, Mike was taken by the Angels with the 25th pick in the first round of the 2009 amateur draft. Idolizing Derek Jeter, he played shortstop at Millville Senior High in New Jersey until he was moved to the outfield in his senior year. He understands why he lasted so late in the first round.
"A lot of risk. East Coast kid. Didn't play all year," he said. "You look at the teams in Florida and California, they've got perfect weather all year. They can play all year."
Harper had the greater renown, appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated when he was just 16 with the headline "CHOSEN ONE." With sunglasses hanging from the top of his shirt and a neatly cropped beard, he has the big league look. A hint of acne reveals he's still a teenager.
"So much pressure ? no, I'm just kidding," he said, joshing with the media.
Joining a Nationals team that already has a top youthful star in ace pitcher Stephen Strasburg, Harper has a .282 batting average with eight homers and 25 RBIs in 63 games. The only younger All-Stars were Bob Feller in 1938 and Dwight Gooden in 1984, both closer to their 19th birthdays than Harper.
"I still feel like I have that kid inside me that wants to play the game of baseball every single day," Harper said. "I got love and that passion for the game and, hopefully, I can keep it going. I hope I'll be able to play for the Nationals for a long time and be able to play in the big leagues for a long time because that's the dream."
While Harper is polished following years of interviews, Trout projects a golly-gee demeanor, with close-cropped hair and a beaming smile. After he twice crashed into the center-field fence at Denver's Coors Field last month, teammates Jered Weaver and Dan Haren suggested he turn down the enthusiasm a few notches.
"'It's a long year. We're going to need you,'" Trout remembered them telling him.
He's hitting .341 with 12 homers, 40 RBIs and 26 steals in 29 chances.
"I was just telling Jete, I've never seen a player hit a triple to left field, down the line," Yankees ace CC Sabathia said. "Raul (Ibanez) plays it off the wall, and he's standing on third. That's just fun to see. What he's doing is amazing."
While Trout was an All-Star shoo-in, La Russa appeared reluctant to select Harper and added him on Saturday as a replacement when Miami's Giancarlo Stanton got hurt.
Even the 67-year-old La Russa, who managed his first World Series champions before Trout and Harper were born, appreciates the focus on the new stars.
"It would be nice to put the National League phenom against the American League phenom," he said.
When discussing Trout, Harper sounds like a fan.
"He's fun to watch. I get pumped to watch him," Harper said.
They hope this is just the first of many All-Star appearances. For every Willie Mays, who played his 24th and final All-Star game in Kansas City, there is a Gooden, who was selected in four of his first five seasons and then flamed out because of injuries and drug use.
Harper and Trout know what they can become. They are the next generation, playing alongside the present.
"I think certain guys who have been introduced to the game of baseball early on in life," said 40-year-old Chipper Jones, who is retiring at the end of the season. "Travel ball has accelerated so much for the development of young players these days. Back when I played, we played 30 games a year, and I'd move on to football and basketball, and run a little track."
Yes, much has changed. But much is the same.
Harper wants to become just like Jones, a perennial All-Star respected by his peers.
"Any time I can do that and be that guy that's the face of baseball, I think that would be great, to be able to do that, to be able to play the game for a long time and respect everybody around me and respect the league," he said. "That would be a lot of fun."
NOTES: Detroit's Prince Fielder became only the second player to win multiple titles in the Home Run Derby, thrilling a crowd of 40,351 with eight splash shots into the right-field fountain and beating Toronto's Jose Bautista 12-7 in the final round. Ken Griffey Jr. won it three times.
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Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Nicolaus Mills: Woody Allen's Roman Holiday
With his newest movie, To Rome with Love, Woody Allen, continues his European film tour. Italy can now be added to Allen's take on England, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger; Spain, Vicky Cristina Barcelona; and France, Midnight in Paris.
But the movie that To Rome with Love most resembles is William Wyler's 1953 Roman Holiday. Roman Holiday was Audrey Hepburn's breakthrough film. In it she plays a young princess (from an unknown country) who decides to escape from the constrictive life she has been forced to lead by sneaking away from her overprotective staff.
The princess has the good luck to be taken up by a handsome American reporter (Gregory Peck), and for 24 hours she has the time of her life before resuming her formal duties.
Wyler's film is a paean to the value of breaking free from convention, and nearly 60 years later, the same sentiments are at the center of To Rome with Love. Only the setting is different. Contemporary Europe, mired in debt and austerity programs, has replaced the social conformity of the 1950s.
To Rome with Love has no single narrative. It instead consists of a series of separate tales in which the characters don't meet but are challenged over what they want to do when the unexpected comes their way.
In some cases the unexpected is easy to embrace. When in the opening scene a young American tourist (Alison Pill) asks directions from a handsome Italian lawyer (Flavio Parenti) with the name of Michelangelo, it is only natural that the two should end up having dinner and before long getting engaged.
The surprises of To Rome with Love come when the unexpected violates taste and propriety. In another of the film's romantic tales, a newly married couple arrive in Rome to meet the relatives of the husband (Alessando Tiberi). The couple get separated when the wife (Alessandra Mastronardi) becomes lost on her way to a beauty shop. The result is that she gets taken up by a movie star and has an affair with the burglar who intrudes on them. He gets pursued by a beautiful call girl (Penelope Cruz), whom he finally can't resist.
When the couple meet up again, neither says anything about what really happened. But neither has been damaged by the day. To the contrary, they have found a capacity for sex they did not know existed in them before, and when they decide to leave Rome and return to the small town they come from, it is with a larger appreciation of their own erotic appetites. Mercifully absent is any handwringing by them or Allen about the need for safe sex or the shallowness of hookups.
But what makes To Rome with Love special is how far Allen will go in endorsing the unexpected. When a young architect (Jesse Eisenberg) takes up with a quirky and narcissistic Hollywood actress (Ellen Page), then gets dumped, he learns something about his own shallowness. He shows every sign of being a better man for his experience and even more appreciative of his kind, but predictable, girlfriend.
Similarly, when a mortician (the renowned opera singer Fabio Armiliato) who in To Rome with Love can only sing in the shower gets a chance to perform in public by being put in a shower on stage, he is delighted with the change his performances make in his life despite the ridiculousness he is subjected to. He also knows the novelty of his theatrical shower singing cannot last, and after a series of triumphs, he happily returns to his job working with the dead.
And so it goes in To Rome with Love. Allen's characters don't even need to be in love or to have a special talent in order to thrive. An ordinary office worker (Roberto Benigni) becomes a celebrity for no good reason and discovers that the pleasures of being noticed are far more important than the loss of privacy. When he is finally abandoned by the media, he realizes that the routines of his life do not need the defending he once thought they did.
"Can one's work be influenced by Groucho Marx and Ingmar Bergman?" Allen once asked in a tribute he wrote to Bergman. The answer in To Rome with Love is yes.
Now 76 years old, Allen not only shows no signs of slowing down (he appears as an actor in To Rome with Love), he shows no signs of worrying about death. The madcap comedy that was part of such early Allen hits as Bananas and Annie Hall may be gone, but what remains is the work of a director who believes that joy is as profound a teacher as tragedy and sees no need to conceal that belief with irony.
Nicolaus Mills is professor American Studies at Sarah Lawrence College and author of 'Winning the Peace: The Marshall Plan and America's Coming of Age as a Superpower.'
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Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Myanmar frees at least three political prisoners in amnesty
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The Search for the Higgs Boson
Latest news
CMS spokesman: 'We've observed a new particle'
By Science News Staff | July 3, 2012 | Read more
Physicists bet they're homing in on Higgs
In its last report, an Illinois lab presents data suggesting the elusive Higgs particle could exist.
By Alexandra Witze | July 2, 2012 | Read more
Physicists on alert for Higgs announcement
Unless you're the Higgs boson, don't expect much attention in July when the International Conference on High Energy Physics convenes in Melbourne, Australia.
By Nadia Drake | June 21, 2012 | Read more
Higgs running out of hiding places
New measurement of another particle?s mass confirms a final missing piece of physics? puzzle is right where scientists think it is.
By Alexandra Witze | February 23, 2012 | Read more
Tantalizing hints of long-sought particle
Europe?s LHC collider finds traces of what could be the Higgs boson, a theoretical entity that explains why matter has mass.
By Devin Powell | December 31, 2011 | Read more
A lighter Higgs, but chase continues
Target narrows after LHC experiments suggest a new lower estimated mass for the elusive particle.
By Devin Powell | October 8, 2011 | Read more
Last words
Tevatron's data may have more to say, even after the atom smasher shuts down.
By Devin Powell | September 24, 2011 | Read more
From the archives
New data suggest a lighter Higgs
Fermilab results heat up the race for an elusive particle.
By Ron Cowen |
August 14, 2010 | Read more
Discovery of Higgs at Large Hadron Collider might not make all physicists happy
Finding the elusive particle means the atom smasher will have to move on to answering bigger, deeper questions.
By Tom Siegfried | October 20, 2009 | Read more
Elusive Higgs particle has fewer hideouts
New mass limits could even the playing field for finding key elementary particle.
By Ron Cowen | March 16, 2009 | Read more
Large Hadron Collider
Everything about the LHC is enormous, from the energies it generates ? 14 trillion electronvolts ? to the nearly 60 metric tons of liquid helium required to cool its magnets. All this just to study the tiniest particles in the universe.
By Ron Cowen | July 19, 2008 | Read more
Corralling the Mass Maker
Hunters of the most eagerly sought particle in high-energy physics, the Higgs boson, are gleaning fresh clues about where and how to look from a new finding about another fundamental particle called the top quark.
By Peter Weiss | June 12, 2004 | Read more
Jiggling the Cosmic Ooze
A new blueprint for all the universe's mass and energy may be just around the corner.
By Peter Weiss | March 10, 2001 | Read more
Most-wanted particle appears, perhaps
Vivid but sparse signs of the Higgs boson at the Large Electron-Positron Collider in Switzerland have sparked a desperate race against time to catch further glimpses before researchers pull the plug on the 11-year-old machine.
By Peter Weiss |
September 23, 2000 | Read more
A World-Class Accelerator
As physicists probe ever deeper into the bowels of nature seeking the ultimate secrets of the structure of matter, they find the need for ever more energetic probes.
By Dietrick E. Thomsen | May 14, 1977 | Read more
Related Links
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Tevatron scientists announce their final results on the Higgs particle , Fermilab press release, July 2, 2012
Frequently Asked Questions About the Higgs Boson
What does it take to claim discovery of the Higgs? Symmetry magazine, June 29, 2012
CERN
ATLAS Experiment
CMS Experiment
Source: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/341953/title/The_Search_for_the_Higgs_Boson
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