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...Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk began winning seats in U.S. cities with large gay populations in the 1970s. Progress has since slowed, says David Rayside, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto. He believes that the relative strength of incumbency in the U.S. creates a barrier to the corridors of power, as does "the strength of religious conservatives." Of the 511,000 elected offices in the U.S. - from local school boards way up to President - openly gay men and women occupy just 450 of them, according to the U.S.-based Victory Fund, an organization that offers financial support...
...dethrone Cameron's picture over an entire weekend. It slipped only 18% from last weekend's take, and tomorrow it's likely to cross the $500-million mark at the domestic box office. Next weekend it should pass The Dark Knight ($533.3 million domestic), leaving Cameron just one more barrier - his own Titanic - between Avatar and the all-time box office record. (The usual advisory: as ticket prices keep rising, inflation makes a mockery of "all-time" figures. In real dollars, according to a Box Office Mojo chart, Avatar is currently only 36th all-time. The top grosser, Gone With...
Dobbs could be a credible spoiler. One poll showed him attracting Perot-like presidential support, in the low teens. And the temptation is understandable, because the barrier between politics and media stardom has been getting more porous. Al Franken went from SNL star to radio host to Senator. Mike Huckabee has a show on Fox News. Sarah Palin left Alaska's governorship to be an author and a media gadfly. Glenn Beck recently announced a political-activist movement involving a "100-year plan" for America...
...blockade against the territory. Hamas, the Islamist party that governs Gaza and which is at odds with the Egyptian regime, had called the protest to pressure the Egyptians over their delay of a Gaza-bound aid convoy. Others came to demonstrate against Egypt's construction of an underground steel barrier meant to block off the smuggling tunnels that provide both a vital lifeline to Gaza's blockaded economy and a pipeline to resupply the arsenals of Hamas...
While the Obamas were at dinner, a security barrier was set up outside the restaurant. But it didn't inconvenience diners at nearby restaurants too badly, says Janice Respicio, a manager of Gyotaku Japanese restaurant. "We had traffic in front, but not too bad," Respicio says. "But we were pretty busy...