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...Thanks to MySpace, you can learn a candidate's star sign and "body type" - but is this cyber meet-and-greet really the boon for democracy that enthusiasts claim it to be? Many MySpace entries tend to be of the "Go, big Kevvie!" variety. Kelly thinks even this exchange is worthwhile. "It's more about the connection than about what you communicate," she says...
...Islamabad has never been a place where crowds gather. "It's not like Sindh," he says, referring to the southern province whose capital, Karachi, saw some 200,000 supporters gather to greet Bhutto upon her return from exile last month. Bhutto's Pakistan's People Party (PPP) leaders still claim the number was closer to 3 million. "People in Islamabad are not willing to get arrested. The Punjabi police [who are in charge of the capital] are notoriously brutal. And there have already been so many arrests - people are afraid...
...recommend the child for hormone blockers. But the final decision rests with the parents. To help inform families confronted with such choices in the future, the Boston team plans to begin clinical trials that will gauge the long-term effects of blocking the maturation hormones. "We don't claim to have all the answers," says Spack. "But right now, people are suffering because of those who won't ask the questions." There are many mysteries about the transgendered. This could clear up one of them...
...oppressed." He panders to popular prejudices, calling same-sex marriage a "disgrace to the nation and to God" and boasting that when he was a boy, he would "knock out" homosexuals. Crucially, he benefits from his position as an outsider. Many ANC supporters are unhappy with what they claim is the government's pursuit of economic growth over equality: millions of South Africans still live in the same tin-roof townships to which they were confined under apartheid. A target of particular outrage has been the emergence of a moneyed black élite around the party leadership--people like Sexwale...
...busy passionately denouncing the College’s violation of “student citizenship” in early October, it now seems perversely satisfied. On the UC’s e-mail list, representative Brian S. Gillis ’08 went so far as to claim that the new party fund agreement represented “one of the greatest victories in UC history.”If this really is one of the greatest victories in UC history, it has been a pretty sorry history indeed. Anything more than a perfunctory examination reveals this...