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...Army has been good for the Johnsons, especially the women. Shana's sister Nikki left last week for officers' training school in Virginia. An aunt is a former Air Force nurse. (Two uncles and two cousins are also in the military.) But Shana Johnson's capture has sparked anew the debate over the proper role of women on the battlefield. Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness, was in Washington last week to urge a change in the Clinton-era reforms after the war. She argues that women in combat risk rape by their captors. The two other...
Last Tennis Game: July ’02. Schooled elderly aunt and uncle...
...tailor's publicist facing the wartime challenge of getting Jennifer Lopez into one of his client's gowns. And, Lo, she looked ravishing in a vintage off-the-shoulder Grecian-style number (that was once worn by Jacqueline Kennedy) with flowered brocade edging I last saw on my Aunt Margaret's bedspread...
...young boy returned to the mountain village of Letefoho in fear and disgrace. He was a child in 1999 when, swept up in the militia violence that followed East Timor's vote for independence, he burnt down his aunt's house and fled. When he finally came home this year, the teenager had no idea of what he would face. He bought new roofing material for his aunt and waited. And in a public ceremony last month, he apologized to her and to his neighbors, and was forgiven...
...into the film. "What I want is no jokes. I don't want lines like 'Good morning, honey.' 'Not in that shirt it's not!'" The show, however, is still very much a sitcom, with a lot of jokes. At a rehearsal for an upcoming episode, Andrea Martin as Aunt Voula walks in on Nia and her husband kissing in the kitchen and says, "Oh, I'm sorry. You're having sex. I'll come back in four minutes." Another scene, which disses Voula's baklava, has Nia calling it "mocklava." Solid jokes, but jokes nonetheless...