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House of Worship
Lisa Miller 9/8/2009 12:00:00 AM
There is a secret organization of powerful Christians in Washington. Only don't call it "secret," its defenders say. Call it "private." Or "below the radar." And it's not an organization, more like a global informal network of friends, or, as one of its leaders described it, "a group of people brought together by a common love." And please don't use the word "Christian." The common love that binds this group is the love of Jesus—the historical figure, the rabbi, the prophet, the shining example, the Son of God. All approaches to loving Jesus are fine. The Fellowship, as this group is called, has the slimmest scrap of a Web site. Nothing about its organizational structure is visible to the public: not its board of directors, nor its executive team, nor its mission statement, nor its 200 subsidiary ministries, nor its national or global membership. (For, as its surrogates tell me, there are no "members.") Outsiders and the press can be forgiven, I think, for regarding this group with suspicion.
The Perils of Punditry
Evan Thomas 6/13/2009 12:00:00 AM
I am an occasional talking head on TV, and I try to appear relaxed, though I am sometimes anxious. In those moments, I can say something that is wrong or that I regret. I don't just put my foot in my mouth on television—I do it at dinner parties, too—but at least, in that case, it doesn't show up on YouTube. Appearing on Hardball With Chris Matthews on June 5, I compared President Obama with God.
Live Your Best Life Ever!
Weston Kosova 5/30/2009 12:00:00 AM
Next come the pills. She swallows 60 vitamins and other preparations every day. "I take about 40 supplements in the morning," she told Oprah, "and then, before I go to bed, I try to remember … to start taking the last 20." She didn't go into it on the show, but in her books she says that she also starts each day by giving herself injections of human growth hormone, vitamin B12 and vitamin B complex. In addition, she wears "nanotechnology patches" to help her sleep, lose weight and promote "overall detoxification." If she drinks wine, she goes to her doctor to rejuvenate her liver with an intravenous drip of vitamin C. If she's exposed to cigarette smoke, she has her blood chemically cleaned with chelation therapy. In the time that's left over, she eats right and exercises, and relieves stress by standing on her head. Somers makes astounding claims about the ability of hormones to treat almost anything that ails the female body. She believes they block disease and will double her life span. "I know I look like some kind of freak and fanatic," she said. "But I want to be there until I'm 110, and I'm going to do what I have to do to get there."
Perspectives
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NEWSMAKERS
Rimes Has No Reason
3/21/2009 12:00:00 AM
Do you ever wonder how boring life would be without the Internet? For example: we wouldn't have been able to watch security-camera footage showing (apparently) country singer LeAnn Rimes (married) making out with her "Lifetime" movie costar Eddie Cibrian (also married) at a southern California restaurant. We wouldn't have been able to read Rimes's nondenial on her blog: "This is a difficult time … not everything in our lives is black and white." And we would have missed the almost pleading response from Dean Sheremet, Rimes's husband, on Twitter: "I love my wife!!!" How nice. And nuts.
TELEVISION
Midnight Madness
Joshua Alston 2/27/2009 12:00:00 AM
It's hard to imagine pitying someone who just got a glitzy, lucrative, high-profile job (or any job, for that matter). But Jimmy Fallon, the charming, if a bit fratty, "Saturday Night Live" alum who is taking the reins of NBC's "Late Night" talk show, shouldn't be the object of anyone's envy. Fallon is taking over for Conan O'Brien, who will take Jay Leno's vacated desk at "The Tonight Show." Leno, meanwhile, will move to a similar show in prime time. That will make Fallon's show the third in NBC's late-night roster, so essentially his mezzanine seat got picked up and moved to the nosebleed section.