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...YOUR KNEES Stand alongside your suitcase and bend your knees when lifting it. Using your leg muscles will help spare those in your back...
...hours, the damage seemed to have no end. The crucial block of undecided women voters later told pollsters that Bush reminded them of their husbands who wouldn't stop and ask for directions. Americans who may have been willing to stand behind Bush again if he showed a little bend or a little learning heard no evidence of either. Just as important for the Bush campaign, which had so carefully courted its conservative base, the President's performance set off gnashing and moans among the faithful...
...Taha takes his own advice very much to heart. "I've understood that if we bend to the clichés and roles society assigns us, we'll never progress, never integrate, never really learn from each other," he says. "In a way, I guess I've become so integrated I can now stand apart and do things my way." Like rocking the Casbah - in Arabic...
Around the Bend...
...redemption of a long-estranged parent is hardly a novel plot in contemporary cinema; it has congealed to the point where every hug, tear and clumsy montage seem carefully choreographed. Refreshingly, Around the Bend, reveals an organic push and pull that approaches the mostly shapeless narrative of real relationships that is only reinforced by the subtle performances of screen legends Christopher Walken and Sir Michael Caine...