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HOFFMAN: If he were a girl who said, "I really don't want to get past first base," I made sure I got to second. Sing us a song! Right now, Barbra...
...Yawer himself stands to gain from the election. Having spent months building a base that includes both Sunnis and Shi'ites, al-Yawer and his party are likely to emerge in a powerful position. Many observers believe al-Yawer has the potential to become what the new Iraq sorely lacks: a moderate Sunni leader who can unite disgruntled Sunnis without alienating the majority Shi'ites. "He has a lot of strengths--a tribal background, a modern attitude, youth," says Iyad al-Samarrai, secretary-general of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni political group. "He will be an important political...
...North Korea, and on July 18 he was flown to Tokyo. While in a hospital there, Jenkins announced that when he was well, he would turn himself in to the U.S. Army. On Sept. 11, Jenkins presented himself at the gates of Camp Zama, a U.S. Army base about an hour's drive from Tokyo. He approached Lieut. Colonel Paul Nigara, provost marshal of the U.S. Army Japan, briskly saluted and said, "Sir, I'm Sergeant Jenkins, and I'm reporting." The longest-missing deserter ever to return to the U.S. Army, he was initially charged with one count...
...enters the arena at this particular moment, with Democrats yet again pondering their fate. The Washington donkeys seem exhausted by the Kerry loss, lacking the energy for their usual intramural vilification. The left traditionally screams that the party lost because it didn't feed enough red meat to its base, but that argument doesn't work this time--the base turned out in droves. Instead, there seems to be a tacit understanding that far too many members of the Democrats' supposed natural constituency, the middle class, voted Republican because of national security and "values" issues. There is hope that Reid...
...home, you can find this self-described "music junkie" at the occasional late-night club gig. These days, McGrath is spending lots of time overseas too, where she is intent on expanding Nickelodeon's presence and developing more original programming for MTV, including the soon-to-debut MTV Base in Africa. Back home, a year after Janet Jackson's MTV-produced Super Bowl half-time striptease, McGrath may again be a lightning rod with the February launch of her newest U.S. channel, Logo, a 24/7 network for gays and lesbians. Not surprisingly, controversy doesn't particularly concern her. Instead, says...