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...what is your relationship with Conan like when the cameras are off? It's great, he folds me into his arms and I come up to his belly button. So I suckle on his belly button and he holds me close. [Laughs.] That can lead to any kind of relationship, right? (See the top 10 late night gags...
...While these examples serve as “lessons to be learned from” antitheses to the idealized Indian family, they are not just mere aberrations. Bollywood and elders now romanticize a time of close-knit familial relations that seems impossibly forced, even for the olden times. The realities of family rifts are often rewritten in golden age retellings of the joint-family collective memory, or dismissed as the result of wayward relatives and brash younger generations. Surely Dhirubhai Ambani may be rolling over in his grave, but today’s evidence for familial breakdown is rooted...
...filling out a form to get membership at Best Price. "I have shopped at the same kiryana shop for 18 years." There are many reasons customers like Kaur prefer their kiryana shops: they deliver for free, even for small orders; they allow regular customers credit; and they are close by and personal. "He knows us so well," she says. "When my daughter went to America to study, he called to ask, 'Madam, is your daughter not home? You haven't been ordering cheese singles!' If I run out of shampoo or detergent, I can just phone...
...years [in law enforcement] for any national role." In answer to whether he could foresee returning to public service, Bratton said there was "real potential for that. I'm very excited about this new prospect and it's potential to engage me. At the same time though I never close any doors before they're open." When pressed as to whether he would be interested in serving as head of the FBI or Homeland Security, he said "I don't comment on jobs that I haven't been offered. We'll see what the future might bring." Los Angeles Mayor...
Even so, the LAPD has hurdles ahead. It must trim $130 million in spending, a consequence of the cuts imposed by the City Council and mayor to close Los Angeles' $530-million budget shortfall. Police administration officials are considering imposing mandatory furloughs starting in October, the Los Angeles Times reported. In addition to a diminished police presence, severe cuts to health and social service programs, and education, will likely add to social woes and, thus, a possible uptick in crime. Because of such challenges, Bratton feels strongly that the next chief should be chosen from from within the department...