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...Marie, now the Defense Minister, who is as formidable a politician as Royal and would be a potential presidential candidate herself if Sarkozy didn't have his party's nomination sewn up. But on the whole, the French political parties remain clannish clusters of ideological currents owing fealty to male leaders. "All the polls show French society to be very open to the idea of a woman President," says Françoise Gaspard, a feminist sociologist and former Socialist Deputy. "But the political parties are still very archaic, controlled by men who can't stand the idea. The fact that...
...Hollywoodland, to its credit, does not give Reeves, who is well and affably played by Ben Affleck, much of an inner life. It presents him as a good-natured hunk, a kind of male starlet, who got off to a promising start - he had a nice little role in Gone With the Wind, a rather longer one in So Proudly We Hail - but then lost momentum because of World War II service. His casting as Superman in a 1950 "B" feature, which in turn led to the fairly long-running TV series, was, in a sense, a lucky break...
...brand-new baby boy. At 8:27 this morning, Tokyo time, Japan's Princess Kiko - the wife of Prince Akishino, Emperor Akihito's second son - gave birth to her first boy. Because Crown Princess Masako has borne only a single daughter, and because Japanese law allows only males to ascend to the Chrysanthemum Throne, Kiko's 7.5 lb. baby will almost certainly be the future Emperor of Japan. For the Japanese royal family and its core conservative supporters, the infant prince is cause for both joy and relief. His birth is a guarantee that the supposedly unbroken line of male...
...family. Unlike the British royals, for instance, the Japanese imperial family's schedule is completely controlled by the IHA. They aren't allowed to have opinions, passports or even last names. Stifled by the IHA, Masako crumbled under the intense pressure to perform her single duty: to bear a male heir. In 2001, after one miscarriage, she finally bore Princess Aiko, who remains the couple's only child. Not long after the birth, Masako succumbed to a depression that many blamed on the intense pressure placed on her to produce a son. She withdrew from her official duties...
News flash: "Following American Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton's suggestion that an outsider--and a woman--should be the United Nations' next Secretary-General, the predominantly male-dominated General Assembly voted unanimously for Angelina Jolie...