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...about what Sturges called Topic A: sex. This liberated period featured dozens of sagas of tough broads on the make or on the skids. Three of the best are collected here. Mae Clarke plays a world-weary prostitute in Waterloo Bridge. Jean Harlow is an unrepentant gold digger, leaving broken hearts and two corpses in her wake, in Red Headed Woman. And the great Stanwyck, as sharp as a slap, sleeps her way to the top in the all-time sleazerrific Baby Face, now available in the original version, which was too hot for the censors...
...rarely lasts long in Somalia. Since the overthrow of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre in 1991, the country has been a byword for dysfunction, less a nation-state than a destitute, unremittingly violent land ruled by the barrel of a gun. Last June the warlords' grip on power was finally broken by a dedicated confederacy of fundamentalist Muslim militias that fought their way into the former capital and sent the warlords fleeing...
Through it all, Gerberding has stood firm. "The CDC was not broken," she says. "The reason to undergo this [reorganization] is that the world was changing so dramatically." As for charges of political interference, she is unapologetic. "This is a public-health agency, and by its very nature, we're never going to satisfy every single constituency," she says candidly. "I tell [Administration officials] this is the science. This is the recommendation. What they do with it is beyond my control...
...He’s broken every rushing record that exists at Harvard, challenged many of Division I-AA’s oldest marks, and he’s the most accomplished running back the Ivy League has ever seen.But on Saturday, Clifton Dawson might not have even been the best tailback on the field.Although Yale tailback Mike McLeod’s 2.6 yards per carry average only slightly bettered Dawson’s 2.5 yards per carry, there were stark contrasts in the players’ performances.McLeod found the endzone three times in the Bulldogs’ decisive...
...capital. And the reported arrests of senior police officers that followed - as well as sharply divergent accounts by different cabinet ministers of how many people had been kidnapped, how many had been released, and whether any had been killed or tortured - suggested that different arms of the government (often broken down on sectarian lines) are not reading off the same script...