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...problems, “Jezebel James” was an engaging screwball piece in the “Gilmore” mode, and many of its fast and furious lines made me laugh out loud. (Posey to Ambrose: “This is a co-op [apartment building], and we’re all in this together, so you have to be nice to everyone. Oh, not her, though, we all hate her.”) Posey and Ambrose may not have made the most believable pair of sisters on the planet, but their chemistry was still engaging...
Almost 50 years later, the Castros appear to be hashing out their differences in print instead of hotel rooms - and this time it's Fidel who's arguing from the left. The 81-year-old comandante has made a new career of sorts as an op-ed scribe since he resigned as Cuba's President earlier this year because of health problems, leaving Raul to become the government's new No. 1 two months ago. Since then, Raul, 76, has ordered a series of small but significant economic reforms, from letting Cubans own cell phones to allowing farmers to till...
...result, Fidel's contrary op-eds are part "of an extremely delicate balance" Raul is pursuing in the early stages of his presidency, or at least until Fidel dies, says Dan Erikson, senior associate at the Inter-American Dialogue in Washington, D.C. "Does he disappoint Fidel or does he disappoint the Cuban people? The reality is that the legitimacy of his government rests on pleasing Cubans but not straying too far from Fidel." Analysts like Erikson concede that Raul's reforms, including permission to let Cubans buy electronics in dollar stores and gain title to their own homes, are "marginal...
...through a series of extracurricular activities like bowling, shopping and grabbing beers at a bar. But rather than make him look more like a regular guy, they have looked strained - a regular guy struggling to be a politician playing the role of a regular guy for a photo-op...
...Delahunty learned two years ago. She was in marathon committee meetings, stacking glorious girls on the waiting list while less accomplished boys wiggled through, when she got an e-mail informing her that her own daughter had been wait-listed. The experience inspired her to write a confessional Op-Ed, "To All the Girls I've Rejected," for the New York Times, responses to which lit up her inbox. "It pissed off the feminists and the misogynists--I got both sides of the spectrum," she told me. "The misogynists said women already have too many advantages. And the feminists said...