Word: elisa
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...give out names, I found myself adhering to similar kinds of traditions. My daughters are half Mexican - not an easy thing to be in Lou Dobbs' America - and my wife and I wanted to make sure they remained proud of their Hispanic heritage. We thus tagged them with Elisa and Paloma - elegant, uncommon and undeniably Spanish. (See pictures of pregnant-belly...
...last decade, perhaps due to the popular boy sidekick in the ubiquitous Dora the Explorer cartoons. Designer Paloma Picasso may be giving a similar - if subtler - bump to my own daughter's name, which has gone from No. 897 in 2000 to 789 last year. As for Elisa, my older daughter's name - a two-decade decline from 421th place to 622nd. (Read "Please Help Joel Stein Name His Baby...
...After the final, the general secretary of the IAAF, Pierre Weiss, explained that inquiries into Semenya's gender would involve a gynecologist, a psychologist and specialists in hormones and internal medicine. If they concluded Semenya was male, Weiss said, "we will withdraw her name from the results." Said Italian Elisa Cusma Piccione, who placed sixth: "For me, she's not a woman. She's a man." (See pictures of Semenya's triumph and trials...
...Elisa Massimino, a lobbyist for Human Rights First, who worked with McCain in 2006 on the Military Commissions Act, says she remembers the Senator often discussing sleep deprivation as a form of illegal abuse. "I would be very surprised if at that point in time Senator McCain and others would not have raised objections to prolonged sleep deprivation," said Massimino. "He talked about Orson Swindle...
...those characteristics that Semenya's competitors see in the world champ, leading them to predict - and hope - that her forthcoming gender results will leave her ineligible to compete with women. "Just look at her," barked Mariya Savinova, the fifth-place finisher from Russia, following Wednesday's race. Italian Elisa Piccione, who finished sixth, was equally severe: "These kinds of people should not run with us. For me, she's not a woman. She's a man." She also outran them both - and not even a gender test can change that...