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...memoirists like Child who write about what made them famous, or infamous. There are unremarkable people who write about a remarkable thing that happened to them. And there is the 21st century memoirist, who makes him- or herself interesting in order to write about it, usually through a time-centric gimmick, like spending a few months at, say, an ashram. Powell belongs to this last category, and cannily the movie lets us see how the wheels turn in her head. Ephron includes Child's real-life reaction to Powell's blog and lets it stand; she doesn...
...best-kept secret," says Jan Towers, health-policy director for the Academy of Nurse Practitioners. Nurse practitioners may have less medical education than full-fledged doctors, but they have far more training in less measurable skills like bedside manner and counseling. "In the United States, we are so physician-centric in our health system," says Patton. "But it should be about wellness and prevention, not about procedures and disease management...
...Lyndon B. Johnson switched it up with Piper-Heidsieck. Richard Nixon favored European wines; he considered himself somewhat of an expert, and a few of his bottles are still stocked in the White House cellar. After California vineyards gained prominence in the 1970s, administrations became a bit more U.S.-centric. Reagan, Bill Clinton and both Bushes regularly served California bottles at official functions. Sometimes the White House will purchase a beverage from a visiting dignitary's home country. Tsingtao beer has been served at every Chinese state leader's visit since 1979. (Watch TIME's video "Beer Pong Strikes Back...
...course the differences are not just in the humble body language but in hard policy. To a large degree, the deck has flipped from the Bush era: the Obama Administration's focus on dialogue-centric, multilateral foreign policy is to the Vatican's liking, while its support of abortion rights and stem-cell research are a deep worry after the Pope's having had an ally on bioethics in the White House for eight years...
...Centre for Policing, Intelligence and Counter Terrorism at Macquarie University in Sydney. "The extreme radical elements of the Tamil diaspora youth will continue to live in the past glory of the LTTE. The more moderate Tamil diaspora youth will use the opportunity to think outside the LTTE-centric worldview, and the less politicized Tamil diaspora youth will become conciliatory advocates promoting trust-building on the ground," Jayasekara says. (See pictures of the Tamil conflict on LIFE.com...