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...choice candidate has been able to compete seriously for the GOP nomination since 1980. No one has gone straight from the studio to the presidency (Ronald Reagan had long ago given up his acting career and had served two terms as Governor of California). This is a very unusual bunch of Republican front runners...
...court, deeming street food unsanitary and unsafe, ruled last May that vendors should cook food at home and sell it pre-packaged. Vendors and workers' rights groups, which had filed a bunch of petitions in the Supreme Court, led a chorus of protests. The Chief Minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, told an Indian newspaper that the judgement was not fair: "Wiping out the vendors will mean wiping out a whole culture; it's just not the solution...
...recent news has been dominated by President Hugo Chavez's proposal for constitutional reform, outlined in a booming speech at the National Assembly that lasted so late into the night that lawmakers couldn't help but tuck into a bunch of empanadas in the legislative chamber. In the speech, whose transcript runs to 61 pages, Chavez ventured into the peculiar with a proposal to build artificial islands in order to consolidate Venezuela's presence in the Caribbean. And then, of course, there was his proposal to remove presidential term limits as well as to increase the term of office from...
...There's no fine tradition of rugby league films. This Sporting Life, the 1963 English production starring Richard Harris, is regarded as the only really good one. Now it has company. The Final Winter, made on a shoestring by a bunch of novices, including co-directors Jane Forrest and Brian Andrews, is a gem, a triumph for adherence to two axioms of football: keep it simple and get the little things right. Its backdrop is league in early-1980s Sydney, but after a burst of action in the first 10 minutes, it shines as a drama exploring the limits...
...This place is no longer just a bunch of hippies," says Bryan Jennings, a station manager at KLNX, Minturn's year-old radio station. "There are ski bums and artists and out-of-towners, and between here and Vail, a heck of a lot of culture and things to do for such a small area. The entire scene is changing fast...