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...exist on less than $1 a day, and average per capita income is lower now than in the 1960s. One African in five lives in a country severely disputed by war. This decline reflects both political and institutional failure. Reform, Museveni argues, "must clearly aim at repositioning Africa from backward, agriculturally focused to industrial societies...
John Gotti thought of himself as the Caesar of the Mafia. But he was really its Commodus. As with the emperor in the movie Gladiator, when Gotti took over the Gambino crime family in 1985, some saw his ascension as a step backward for the family. He was muscle, a grunt, an obscure and none-too-bright soldier who wouldn't have become boss if so many of his betters weren't already in jail...
...remarkably engaging. He likes to laugh, and you like him for it. And no, I don't think he's gay. Not just because I've been gay for all of my 36 years and have a pretty good gaydar. The real giveaway is the baseball cap he wears backward. Any gay man in Hollywood knows that that look is definitely over...
...Someone (many people) noted that Ginger did everything Fred did, only backward and in high heels. That's not quite true. She didn't choreograph; she didn't drive the movie and the performers. And even I can see that, though Rogers was in Astaire's dancing class (as a precocious student), she wasn't in his dancing class (as an equal). His gestures are indeed larger, more precise and graceful, than hers. But ultimately that doesn't trouble me. The story of the films is one of aristocratic Fred elevating shopgirl Ginger to his level, and of Ginger bringing...
...around 10 in the evening, a young man beat a young woman to death with a golf club on her front lawn. When the club finally broke--on a backswing, sending the bloodied steel head flying backward across the yard--the young man kept going, stabbing the girl with the sharp splintered shaft. One stab drove a lock of her long blond hair right through her neck, like a thread through a needle. The girl was Martha Moxley. On June 7, 2002, a Connecticut jury decided the young man was Michael Skakel...