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...week reached its highest level since German reunification. The reason for all this good cheer? Columnists call it the Merkel Factor. It was even given solid form on floats at the annual Carnival parade in Cologne. Last year, a vast, papier-mâché Merkel bent over to kiss the bottom of a George W. Bush figure; this year she had undergone a makeover into a motherly barkeeper, huge breasts enveloping her coalition partner, apparently loving him - and Germany - to death. From figure of fun to Mother Germany, from electoral liability to the pride of her party and country...
...they barreled off. When they arrived he was blindfolded and beaten some more, his pockets emptied, and a picture of his young daughter rifled from his wallet. "Who is this?" a captor quizzed. "This is my daughter," he says he replied. "Can I ask you a favor? Can I kiss that picture before you kill me?" The price for his release, he was warned, was $20,000 by morning-or he would never see his daughter again. To drive home the point they lifted his blindfold just enough to let him see bare electrical wires, with a promise that...
Daughter. Mother. Sister. Lover. Friend. A spirited new anthology, Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty (Doubleday) takes on myths of maturing women with an impressive roster of writers. Joyce Maynard explores middle-aged dating: "The higher the income a man reports, the more likely he is to set his sights on younger women." Ellen Sussman meditates on the joys of sex: "I love sex. I love middle-age sex. I love married sex. I'm almost 50, and I've never felt sexier. But damn, it took a long time...
...Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on her short visit; Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair and China's Premier Wen Jiabao are in for a treat, too. Downer's hyper-funny side is in its prime, frequently teased out by his hyperactive Opposition counterpart, Kevin Rudd. Far from the kiss-kiss world of diplomacy, political beasts Downer and Rudd often rumble in their very own hyperbolic chamber. While the prevailing contest is about Australia's participation in Saddam Hussein's corruption of the humanitarian aid program to Iraq, it would be wrong to see Downer vs. Rudd as mere rhetorical...
...once-popular diet supplement ephedrine. Pitfalls abound, however. According to Director of Compliance for Harvard’s Athletic Department, Nathan Fry, taking Tylenol Cold, which contains pseudoephedrine HCl, could lead to getting booted off the team. And forget March Madness fun— athletes can kiss their DHAs good-bye if they’re caught funding spring break through betting on other NCAA teams. The kids aren’t the only ones facing restrictions at the hands of the NCAA. Bizarrely enough, coaches are not allowed to give prospective athletic recruits any information in folders with pockets...