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Recently Hillary Clinton refused to be in Vogue magazine, fearing she would appear too feminine. What do you think that says about women's roles in society? Emily Nielsen, Poway, Calif.Showing your femininity should help your career and not go against your career. Dressing like a man, using the suit to look powerful-that was the '80s, and that didn't help women. Helping women is [using] your brain and not the way you dress...
...Reunion--in which Perry reprises his signature drag character, Mabel (Madea) Simmons--took in $30 million in its first three days and eventually grossed $63 million. Last fall's Why Did I Get Married?, an ensemble drama about a couples' retreat, made $55 million. And next year he will appear in his first film by someone else: J.J. Abrams' Star Trek prequel, as the head of the Starfleet Academy...
...Justice Samuel Alito joined his colleagues, pointing out that the ban's provision - that legal rifles or shotguns be kept unloaded, with the trigger locked - neutralized its self-defense purposes. If an intruder materialized, he asked, could the weapon be readied in time? Both he and Justice Clarence Thomas appear certain to embrace the individual rights argument...
...victory for the pro-gun community than a victory with great practical significance," says Dennis Henigan, vice president for law and policy at the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence. He notes that while the majority of justices "expressed skepticism" about D.C.'s gun laws, "there certainly did not appear to be a majority for establishing a constitutional standard that would call into question the validity of gun control laws across the board." The district's gun ban is certainly under fire. Whether it will suffer a fatal blow or a flesh wound remains to be seen...
Despite the intensity of the confrontation between the Chinese authorities and Tibetan protestors, Beijing and the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, appear to be subtly acknowledging the extent to which they need each other. But you have to read past the pungent rhetoric to see that...