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...Because I've done a lot of serious roles. I think I take my work seriously, but I crack a lot of jokes and I'm pretty irreverent...
...Democrats on the commission pushed for a deadline, arguing that only the unequivocal reality of a U.S. withdrawal would compel the Iraqi government to get its house in order and crack down on the militias and death squads tearing the country apart. But Baker reportedly opposed that proposal, stressing, among other factors, a common refrain of President Bush's: as David Sanger summed it up in The New York Times, "any firm deadline would be an invitation to insurgents and sectarian groups to bide their time until the last Americans were withdrawn, then seek to overthrow the government...
Tearra Daniels, 13, was luckier. Like Saleem, she was infected at birth by her mother, a crack addict who was later murdered. Placed with foster parents the day after she was born, Daniels was 3 when she became one of the first 70 children in the U.S. to test a protease inhibitor. Even in the brief span of her lifetime, Daniels has watched pediatric-AIDS treatments improve significantly. When she was an infant, her adoptive mother Maryann had to wake her up at 4 a.m. to administer the first of four daily doses. Today the blond, blue-eyed girl...
Europe's traditions of secular tolerance appear to be haunted by the Islamic veil. Every week seems to bring new headlines announcing moves to crack down on the wearing of what critics appear to deem this most alienating symbol of Muslim faith, whether in French public schools, British government buildings or out in public in the Netherlands...
When asked how he would respond to someone who claimed poker was amoral, Warshauer answered, “I would stare them down. They would eventually crack, and I’d call their bluff...