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...Apatow insists the female roles in his movies are just as real as the male ones. He's producing films written by and starring Kristen Wiig and Charlyne Yi; if those movies have lots of women calling one another lesbians and making self-deprecating vagina jokes, then Apatow can check off one more box on his self-improvement list...
...Leading up to the 2000 count, before the Census included an option to check more than one race, the Bureau was flooded with letters from white women married to black men asking if they should check white or black for their children. They sent pictures and asked which parent the Census wanted their kids to deny. "They explicitly said it's about representation and respect, because no one thought there was going to be a special government program for children of mixed-race parents," says Prewitt, who was running the bureau at the time. "The Census is the picture...
SUNDAY Time to check off the cultural big hitters. To taste the city's glorious Baroque past, feast your eyes on the chiaroscuro drama of the paintings adorning the Carthusian monastery of La Certosa di San Martino, tel: (39-081) 229 4502. Don't miss the stunning presepe (Nativity crib) that is one of the finest examples of this local artisanal craft. Unwind over Sunday lunch at La Scialuppa, www.lascialuppa. it, with views of the fishing vessels bobbing in the harbor. This should fuel your journey around the vast National Archaeological Museum, marcheo.napolibeniculturali.it, and its window on the world buried...
...Nahum were allegedly major fundraisers for Shas and Yosef family networks of educational institutions. According to a report on Israeli television, Rabbi David Yosef was also said to have been the target of Solomon Dwek, the FBI's chief informant, who asked the rabbi to help him launder a check for $25,000. David Yosef reportedly declined. (Read about the New Jersey corruption sting...
...Change List accuses Kurdish leaders of doing a poor job of standing up for Kurdish interests in Baghdad, such as seeing that the government delivers on its constitutional obligations to return Kirkuk and other disputed areas to Kurdish governance. With Iraq's Sunni-Shi'ite sectarian violence largely in check, the growing Kurdish-Arab discord has become the most worrisome fault line in the country. Massoud Barzani, head of the KRG, and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki haven't spoken in over a year, and KRG Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani said recently that Kurdish-Arab relations are at their...