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...often it's the men who'd be reformed. Playboy Cary Grant, in the 1957 An Affair to Remember, meets chanteuse Kerr on a long cruise and, at nearly the first stop, takes her ashore to meet his aged mother. By the end of the voyage they've agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building ("the nearest thing to heaven"). The ending, which I'll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers...
Sixty years later, the Democrats faced another incumbent President: war hero Ulysses Grant. To oppose him they tapped Horace Greeley, an eccentric idealist and newspaper editor. Greeley had been an opponent of slavery (he urged Abraham Lincoln to abolish it even before the Emancipation Proclamation was issued) and a supporter of protective tariffs--all anathema to the Democrats of his day. But after the Civil War, Greeley's idealism found a new cause: reaching out to white Southerners by ending Reconstruction. The Democrats, eager to restore the political power of their Southern soul mates, were willing to overlook Greeley...
...exchange for her party's support, the president - whose recent election for a second term in office is still being debated by the supreme court, and is predicated on his promise to step down as army chief before taking the oath of office - has passed a bill that would grant her amnesty for the troubling corruption charges that forced her to flee in 1999, charges she denies. The Supreme Court is also debating the validity of Musharraf's amnesty offer...
...thinking of taking FemSex would be better off finding a sexually progressive boyfriend or visiting a psychiatrist if she has menstrual-stigmatization issues. Both writers make note of the course fee, but fail to mention that payment for it is optional and that the price is highly subsidized by grant money. Neither of these writers had enrolled in the class, but of course, they are perfectly licensed to their opinions...
...Porter Grey, stand as CEOs of design labels that have risen in considerable prominence in the fashion world—a prominence so extreme that they refused comment to their alma mater’s newspaper. (Because of PR constraints and commitments to other magazines, neither would grant interviews for this article...