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...actors to convey them. In a church-going family that tries to educate her, the six foot five Madea is a person of extremes: demanding yet forgiving, playful yet violent. But whether pulling a gun on her relatives at a houseparty or conveying deep hurt when her pothead brother (also played by Perry) ridicules her weight, Madea is a credible character—a madwoman played to a tee. Though it is difficult to identify with Madea, Perry knows her in and out; this is what makes her convincing.The assistant district attorneys, whose potentially-gripping stories dominate most...
...considered a nation's most popular politician yet simultaneously barred from ever holding public office again. But that's the situation facing Pakistani opposition leader and long-time political mainstay Nawaz Sharif after a Feb. 25 decision by Pakistan's Supreme Court. The ruling declared both Sharif and his brother, Shahbaz, ineligible to hold office, ostensibly because of Sharif's criminal convictions after he was tossed from office in a 1999 coup by Gen. Pervez Musharraf...
...families like the Fradins, however, knowing the why of food allergies is less important than knowing whether their children will be affected - and how. (Noah has a brother who has no food allergies.) Because allergic reactions to food can vary, even within the same person, allergists often shrug when it comes to advising parents about forecasting anything about their child's next reaction. "We really have no test that can tell us who is apt to have a severe, life-threatening reaction and who is more like the vast majority who will never have that kind of reaction," says...
...Pakistan A Return to Turmoil Pakistan's Supreme Court barred opposition leader Nawaz Sharif and his brother Shahbaz from holding elected office--a move that sparked nationwide protests among supporters. The ruling, which Sharif claims was ordered by President Asif Ali Zardari, revives a poisonous rivalry between Pakistan's main parties. Sharif supporters have campaigned to reinstate members of the Supreme Court dismissed by ousted former President Pervez Musharraf...
...three years, and other figures opposed to Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov's regime have also been targets. The murder of opposition journalist Anna Politkovskaya is linked to her criticism of the Kremlin-backed Kadyrov, whose government is accused of torturing thousands of individuals. In September 2008, Ruslan Yamadayev, the brother of Sulim Yamadayev, rumored to be a rival of Kadyrov, was gunned down outside the British embassy in Moscow at peak hour. (On Jan. 13, Umar Israilov, a former bodyguard of Kadyrov's, was killed on the streets of Vienna, where he had obtained asylum.) "I don't know...