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...that strategy runs counter to the highly tactical approach that Emanuel has pursued, which is to pick winnable districts and candidates who can win them. Looking to beat popular G.O.P. incumbents, Emanuel has sought out people who break the mold of the white male state legislators who generally run for Congress. He has enough female candidates running in key races that if the Democrats take over, there's sure to be a spate of Year of the Woman stories...
...have a script or anything," says Hess, "but he was confident we'd come up with something good." Hess, who co-wrote the film with his wife Jerusha and Mike White, had never worked with a celebrity before, and when it came time to shoot, "I kind of beat around the bush if I wanted to change something. But Jack was just like, 'Hess, dude, tell me what you want.'" Says White: "He's not a Jim Carrey. He's not looking to improvise, and he finds it annoying when people say, 'Then you'll come in and do your...
...Some are already paying a heavy price. In a statement issued from jail and posted in numerous blogs, blogger activist Mohammad Al Sharqawi said police brutally beat and sexually assaulted him when he was arrested leaving a protest last week. "The pain was terrible," Al Sharqawi wrote in the statement. "I was screaming asking him to stop so that I can catch my breath. He took down my underwear, and tore it to pieces, and kept on hitting me on different parts of my body asking me to bend down. I refused, but they forced me." Gamal Eid, Al Sharqawi...
...activities until it can resolve concerns expressed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) over its program. But with China and Russia firmly resisting moves by the U.S. and its allies to seek a resolution threatening sanctions, or worse, if Iran fails to comply, the U.S. and its allies beat a tactical retreat. They chose instead to improve the incentives offered to Iran in the hope of securing its compliance - or if it remains defiant - of bolstering support for punitive action...
...revealing flash emerged as Costello, projector clicker at the ready, was explaining the Budget to sequestered reporters on May 9. Searching for a word to sum up the changes to superannuation, he thought for a few beats, then settled on "radical." It was Costello looking down the time tunnel; the exact image of the landscape and people out there in 2040 was elusive, but he seemed happy with the shape of the outcome. The moment passed and the Treasurer went back to the script. But radical was a description Costello was burdened with-or guided by-for two decades...