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Still, Grier may develop a new fan base. At 48, she is someone more mature audiences can root for. "Women in society in their 40s feel the absence of a lot of things," says Grier, who is engaged to Kevin Evans, 35, a record producer. "Society says they are not attractive, have no sex appeal and are thrown away. That's not true. I'm as energetic as I've ever been, and my sex drive today is so intensified that I just drive myself crazy. I feel better than I felt at 19." The baddest one-chick hit squad...
Massachusetts State Senator Warren E. Tolman (D-Watertown), who also spoke at the news conference, said that the Cops in Shops program is being piloted in Cambridge and Watertown and may be developed across the state "to go at the very root of this problem" of underage drinking...
...root of the growing complaints against the current domain name system, in which Bode's suit is the latest, is the incompatibility of U.S. government control with the international, largely ungoverned nature of the Internet...
...Iraqi officials claim ? logically, some might say ? that such a move would be like letting the U.N. root around at the White House. Nonsense, replies Washington, Saddam is stalling. As before, the truth depends on whether you believe that Saddam's decision to allow the inspectors to return was, in the words of Defense Secretary William Cohen, "a change of heart or a change of tactics...
Whatever the reasons for it, this public backlash against the successful is an intriguing and powerful phenomenon which, regardless of its occasional unfairness, at least makes good copy. We may need villains to root against as much as we need heroes to cheer for, and who better to wear the black hat than those people or organizations that the public made famous and successful in the first place...