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...Women sometimes have to leave or just faint when they hear some of the show. It just brings back memories," Ensler said...
Unfortunately, there are no good grounds to suppose that the Taliban can be deflected from their benighted campaign. Even the Metropolitan Museum's offer to purchase and transport pieces of the two Bamiyan Buddhas to New York was rebuffed by Taliban officials. Last week a very faint ray of hope faded when Pakistan, the Taliban's closest ally, failed to dissuade them from going ahead with their plans. Pierre Lafrance, a UNESCO special envoy, was sent to talk to Taliban mullahs in Kandahar, but he found that "there was not the slightest hint of bargaining in their position. Their standard...
...Spice Girl," she doesn't actually want to be in the Spice Girls. "It doesn't really feel that natural to me anymore," said Chisholm. The Spice Girls weathered the loss of Geri Halliwell in 1998, but Chisholm is believed to be the group's best singer--faint praise, perhaps, but when you're an act more critically reviled than 98[degrees], you take praise where you can get it. Chisholm released a solo album in 1999 and plans to begin another in May. A spokesman for her former bandmates said, "There are no Spice Girls plans at the moment...
Without qualm or reservations, without regard for the impressionable children milling about, Section 11 will curse and deride, condemn and deplore. The goalie sucks, his teammates suck, their coach sucks, the referee sucks. The same goes for their moms. Section 11 is not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for the politically correct. Frankly, it's downright mean...
...Somewhere in the middle was the usually definitive Wall Street Journal editorial page. It damned him with faint praise by remarking on the former general's admitted unfamiliarity with details of the security situation in Jerusalem: "That the secretary should so plainly confess his ignorance is a good sign." The Journal liked the fact that Powell seems ready "to look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through fresh eyes." It didn't like Powell's criticism of Israel's "siege" of Palestinian territories, fretting he might go soft on terrorism, possibly "joining the predictable chorus" of Sharon critics...