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...broken lockers. Rhodes is 6 ft. 8 in. (2 m) tall, so he has to look down to talk to almost everyone. He wears white tube socks under his black Nike flip-flops and carries his large frame deliberately, like a gentle overseer. "You see all these lockers? None of them work," he says. "This classroom over here is supposed to be for home economics, but it's never been fixed...
...Cuban-born exile, has always been a little too naked in his politics for my tastes, and this song is no different, a lament about a teenage hooker who's dismal in "a land where the future jumped the wall and swam away." But Zenia was worried about none of that. There's a particularly sweet chorus at the end of the song: "Oh Habana, oh Habana." Zenia started singing along, in the same pure voice her father has. Let the adults sweat their fevers; for her, this was a simple love letter to her city. She doesn't need...
...novel American Wife. There was a photo in the New York Times that seemed to sum up his current circumstance: Bush in Peru, dressed in an alpaca poncho, standing alone just after the photo op at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum, with various Asian leaders departing the stage, none of them making eye contact with him. Bush has that forlorn what-the-hell-happened? expression on his face, the one that has marked his presidency at difficult times. You never want to see the President of the United States looking like that...
Supporters of a traditional definition of marriage have pushed for statewide votes in more than 30 states, and gay marriage has survived in none of them. Those bans, together with existing legislation, make gay marriage expressly illegal in 45 states. And while the outcome of the legal challenges to California's recent vote to ban gay marriage will be watched closely, even gay rights activists say the momentum is draining from the gay marriage fight...
...thing, it is animated by a sort of irresistible exuberance. Everyone connected with the film acts as if none of their primitive motives and bustling activities has ever been seen before on any screen. Then, too, they seem to have the idea that they're not just making a kind of Down Under western. They're under the illusion that they're making a national epic, a film that symbolically addressed most of the foundational issues with which the Aussies have grappled since the first convict ships dumped their cargoes on the "fatal shore" in the 19th century. This...