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...there will be no "I am you" speech. However much she might be angry at her husband, she is far angrier at Starr for training 100 lawyers and FBI agents on her husband's sex life. Many people, myself included, would have liked her to hurl her husband's boxer shorts out on the Truman Balcony for getting us into all this. But just as many of us admire couples who slog through the bad times. Her favorability ratings, at about 60%, are her highest ever. Still, I wouldn't want my daughter to grow up to be Hillary Clinton...
...which can be a godsend for anxious new parents. "We've got results already," says Luis Teijeiro, a 38-year-old Miami resident who began massaging his 11-week-old daughter Alissa in June. "Before, her fist was always clenched so tight she was like a little boxer." Now when Alissa wakes up crying in the middle of the night, he massages her. Within minutes, she falls back to sleep...
Pilates has a long history. It was developed by Joseph Pilates, a German boxer, at the turn of the century. A sickly child, he obsessed about the perfect body, something to combine the physique of the ancient Greeks with the meditative strength of the East. The result was 500 exercises requiring intense concentration and centered mainly on a strong abdomen, as well as deep stretching. "This is your powerhouse," says Pilates master teacher Romana Kryzanowska, 75, her hand on her stomach. "With that you can do this": her right leg scissors into a kick that would make a Rockette...
...Dreams, ending the Victorian era. Her Majesty, as if on cue, died the following January, after a 63-year reign. Her empire included one-quarter of the earth's population, but the Boer War in South Africa was signaling the end of the colonial era. In China, the Boxer Rebellion heralded the awakening of a new giant. In America, cars were replacing horses, 42% of workers were in farming (today it's 2%), and the average life-span was about 50 (today it's around...
...Boxer Rebellion against foreigners in China...