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...Then the Obama spokesman upped the ante: "It is also ironic that Senator Clinton lavished praise on Monday and is fully willing to accept today the support of South Carolina state senator Robert Ford [an African American], who said if Barack Obama were to win the nomination, he would drag down the rest of the Democratic Party because 'he's black.'" That drew yet another round from Team Clinton: "How can Senator Obama denounce the politics of slash and burn yesterday while his own campaign is espousing the politics of trash today?" As for Geffen, he did what few people...
...light,' but it fell off," admits Uys. Next door, in the Museum Nauseum, an intimate 80-seat theater, old political posters advise voters to bly blank my volk (Stay White My People), and there's an official portrait of the 1983 Cabinet Ministers' wives - "Where they all look like drag queens" - which Uys confesses was stolen by an M.P. from Parliament for Evita. But it's not all about the past. For up-to-the-minute satire, head outside to her Boerassic Park, where the garden gnomes include President Thabo Mbeki driving a "gravy train...
...Amidst a retinue that included everything from superhero impersonators on stilts to a group of students promenading as giant fruit and yellow-suited men on Segway scooters, Johansson sat nestled in the backseat of a Bentley convertible between two drag-clad Hasty Pudding ambassadors...
...Blocos can be - and are! - organized by drag queens, filmmakers, journalists, or just drinking buddies. This one today was especially designed for children, hence the battalions of infants dressed as clowns, butterflies, fairies, pirates and superheroes. Like most blocos, it was typically Carioca, that is, loud, chaotic and great fun, which explains its success. "We're sick of the Broadway element [of official carnival]," said Roberto da Matta, one of Brazil's best know anthropologists. "It's a 12-hour show and no one can stand it. So if you go to the city center or to a pra?...
...always been very solicitous of the views and opinions of others,” Schipper Professor of Law Bruce H. Mann said recently. “You can bring people much farther along if you persuade them to go with you than if you drag them.”Though her emphasis on consensus-building could raise the concern that she is too middle-of-the-road, her colleagues and friends dismiss the idea, saying that, though she consults with people, she ultimately makes her own decision with conviction.“The thing about being president of a major...