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...show challenges the outdated double standard that has allowed men to be promiscuous but has expected young women to remain sexually passive and prudish. But to achieve this, the female characters employ the same commitment-shy, sexually impersonal behavior that men have been traditionally criticized for displaying. Due to their aversion to intimacy, they tend to consider the men in their lives as disposable as their latest fashion trends. Samantha’s brazen avocation of the “zipless screw” and Carrie’s insensitive decision to put a passionate fling above a serious relationship...
...Baghdad last Saturday, raising the war's U.S. death toll to 500; a suicide bombing on Sunday targeted coalition headquarters in Baghdad, killing two Americans and at least 18 Iraqis. U.S. officials in Iraq fear that assaults are increasingly being directed by jihadists who are leading cells that employ ex-Iraqi soldiers, homegrown Muslim militants and foreign volunteers. An Iraqi with close ties to the resistance says that a group of former Iraqi military officers held two meetings with religious militants last fall that established an alliance aimed at coordinating anti-American attacks. A senior U.S. military official in Baghdad...
...once they make it into Iraq. "You don't know who they are or who's protecting them," says an Administration official. Compared with the Baathists, he notes, "there's less of an organization"--or it's less detectable. The Iraqi source close to the insurgency says militant groups employ networks of smugglers to take foreign enlistees over the Syrian, Saudi Arabian and Jordanian borders. Afterward the enlistees are ferried through safe houses until they reach a hub city such as Ramadi or Fallujah...
Yale University, which had returns of 8.8 percent on an endowment worth almost $11 billion, does not employ in-house money managers...
...icons, it’s not implausible to think that they just might elect some good-natured, telegenic personality with whom they can relate. And as Showtime assumes complete control over their candidate’s image, it’s reasonable to assume that producers might employ some sly manipulation to give their candidate an edge. Though it’s hard to imagine the prospect of a manufactured candidate actually stealing a presidential election, we’ve already witnessed a highly unqualified—yet famous—figure convince the public that on-camera charisma might...