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...person is more than what is written on his or her anatomy. It also has an uncanny sensitivity for the stormy, complex relationship--like a platonic marriage--between the straight-male leads Christian (Julian McMahon) and Sean (Dylan Walsh). When Sean discovers, for instance, that Christian had an affair with Sean's wife and is the real father of his son, he tells his friend, heartbroken, "I loved you the most...
...upon finishing her studies in Japanese, finds work as an "economy geisha" in Osaka to earn money for travel. Mary's adventures in boredom, sexual harassment and exposure to secondary smoke portend a Lost in Translation comedy of manners. But something darker is afoot. Mary is having an affair with the bar owner's son, a handsome man with connections to the Yakuza, the Japanese organized crime syndicate. As the relationship deepens, her travel plans keep receding. "Every one of his embraces squeezes a little more of the wanderlust out of me," the smitten Mary confesses. The book's focus...
...BRITISH ROYAL FAMILY SHOULD HAVE let Charles propose to Camilla right at the outset. Broken hearts, broken families and unnecessary death could have been avoided. If it had not been for Charles' on-and-off affair with Camilla, he would not have been separated or divorced from Diana. Diana would not have taken up with Dodi Fayed, and there would have been no car accident in Paris. But wait, there would also not have been Diana, Queen of Hearts. It all boils down to providence...
...porn. On the contrary, this is a serious television drama, and the much-publicized coupling constantly disappointed as potential arousal was defused by Marissa’s manly voice and awkward advances. Even the first kiss, which the network hyped up for five weeks, was lukewarm.1 Her love affair with the bottle was arguably more exciting than the Alex affair...
Surprises are rare in Egyptian politics, where democracy is an affair carefully managed by the government, and President Hosni Mubarak's 24-year presidency has never been contested at the ballot box. That's why the announcement, Saturday, by the 76-year-old Mubarak that he wants the constitution amended to allow more than one candidate to run in September's presidential election registered as something of a political earthquake in Cairo. Rather than yet another presidential referendum in which his is the only name on the ballot, Mubarak is proposing a direct, competitive presidential election - the first in Egypt...