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...some extreme menu plan. And I've never really blown it - not even once - since I started my journal in June. Sure there are moments when I'd love to gobble down "11 chocolate chip cookies and a pint of ice cream for dessert," but I just can't bring myself to have to write that down after listing my healthy salad. Maybe it's a kind of self-brainwashing (salad = good), but it works. And I bet many of the diarists in the Kaiser Permanente study kept their mouths closed for the same reason...
...elections brought a civilian government back to power, Pakistan is reeling. It's not just the attacks by militants. The economy, which had been growing steadily, has been hit hard by spiking fuel and food costs. The parliamentary coalition that eclipsed the former military leader, Pervez Musharraf, promised to bring peace and progress. Instead, the new leaders are preoccupied with wrangling over who is in charge. Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani, a stalwart of Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party (PPP), bows to Asif Zardari, Bhutto's widower, who is co-chair of the party but does not hold government...
...What's your advice for Asian directors seeking success in the U.S.? Harry Jeon, New York City If you want to make an American film, it's got to look like an American film but have something different about it. You have to try your best to bring in your own culture...
...fair assessment, at least for the centerpiece of the sprawling legislation--a plan to use the insurance guarantees of the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to entice lenders to renegotiate up to $300 billion in troubled home loans. It might do some good, and the fact that Frank can't bring himself to say more may have less to do with the legislation itself than with the immensity of the problem Congress is trying to address...
...good that came of it was that Mandela on his own launched negotiations with the apartheid government. This was anathema to the African National Congress (ANC). After decades of saying "prisoners cannot negotiate" and after advocating an armed struggle that would bring the government to its knees, he decided that the time was right to begin to talk to his oppressors...