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...comedy The Family Guy stole her Charwoman character, theme music and signature ear tug. Blogsite CELEBRITY FIRST warns, "If all parodies end up with legal actions, there should be a separate ministry to deal with the lawsuits." Sadly, CF, there is such a ministry: it's called the Judicial Branch. SCORE...
...swimsuit, performing her talent—a Fosse-style jazz number—and presenting a platform to judges. But Sinnott’s not just a pretty face on the catwalk—she’s also the only female from Harvard in the Marine Corps branch of the Navy ROTC, which she calls her “first love.” When she’s not donning high-heels, Sinnott opts for combat boots, waking up early four times a week to train and going on weekend field exercises. “The focus...
...same time, al-Sadr seems to be offering an olive branch to his Sunni rivals. His most recent Friday prayer, usually delivered to excitable crowds, was handed out on flyers in Sadr City. In it he asked his followers to unite with all Iraqis. "Reject all division and factionalism, sectarian and civil war," read the missive. "Treat your brother Iraqis as brothers. Do not discriminate between Sunni and Shi'ite at all, and nor against others, so that you be the highest example of all this." Instead he asked them to focus their rage against another enemy: "Raise your voices...
...professors grappled over which branch of the government should have the final say in strategic military decisions—the legislative or the executive—at a panel on Friday at Harvard Law School (HLS). The talk took place just one day after the Senate rejected a resolution requiring the President to withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq within a year. In the debate leading up to the vote, the White House had said it was inappropriate for Congress to weigh in on battlefield decisions. Legal luminaries Professor of Law David J. Barron ’89, a former Crimson...
...sometimes criticized as the purview of First World do-gooders helping Third World women market tribal shawls. The handful of institutions like it are the first real banking system most rural Mexicans have ever known. In developed countries there are usually fewer than 2,000 people per bank branch. In Oaxaca the number is 38,000, according to AMUCSS. Mexico's big banks have failed to help. The few large banks that make up Mexico's financial oligopoly have all but shut out small business with exorbitant interest rates and prohibitive red tape - despite the fact that small- and medium...