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...Science tells us that, within the next few decades, women will be able to reproduce without men; guys will be obsolete. It'll be different at the plexes, though. You can bet that, years from now, Spider-Man 13 will be tracking a mid-life Peter through more rocky relationships with other difficult males, and being stalwartly sensitive about it all. If movie men are getting in touch with their female side, who needs movie women...
...fans and lovable for the rest of us. In the first Pirates movie, Johnny Depp's sexually ambiguous, Keith Richards-inspired Captain Jack Sparrow became a new comic icon. Aware of their worth to their franchises, Maguire and Depp demand bigger fees to stick around. It?s a safe bet that the $17 million Maguire got for Spider-Man 2 is at the very least matched this time around...
...which will dominate: War or change? My sense is that war trumps everything. And so, despite the Bush Administration's problems, if I had to bet, I would put my money (nervously) on a hawkish Republican over a dovish Democrat...
...Palestinian women suicide bombers is emerging. Male suicide bombers tend to be introverts, the women less so. The women are older and better schooled than their male counterparts. Whereas the men are usually in their late teens and early 20s with scant education, studies carried out by Shin Bet, the Israeli version of the FBI, on 67 women recruited to become suicide bombers from 2002 to 2005 found that 33% were college graduates and an additional 39% had finished high school...
...women martyrs--willing or not--it is remarkable that suicide attacks against Israelis have been so infrequent in recent years. In March 2002, for instance, militants carried out twice as many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community and Israel to deal with elected Hamas...