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...last rites. You may wonder what a bright, pretty young woman would see in an aging, taciturn mobster, but, hey, this is a romantic comedy of a sorts and stranger things than that have happened over the years in that genre. I mean, by what logic did Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn find themselves keeping company with a leopard in rural Connecticut...
...beefing up border security. This gives representatives like Shuler the opportunity to vote for border security, which has broad support. The Senate legislation would double the border patrol, and provides billions in funding for additional fencing and border technology. It would also start the guest worker program - which would grant 400,000 two-year visas to workers looking for U.S. employment - only after all of the border security fixes have been implemented...
...known as the author of Diana: Her True Story, the 1992 biography that revealed - with Diana?s covert blessing - how unhappy she was in her marriage. But he also chairs Response International, which helps war victims in countries like Bosnia, Kosovo and Lebanon. In 2002, the charity received a grant from the Memorial Fund to support land-mine clearance in Pakistan. "Some of the charity workers have to go where literacy rates are low and suspicion of strangers is high," says Morton. "They carry pictures of Diana with them, and everywhere they go, she is recognized as a humanitarian. Diana...
...even before Samarra, there was a growing body of evidence that Iraqis aren't ready or willing to perform their appointed tasks. What does that imply for the U.S. military operation and when it might end? Or for the development of an Iraqi polity in which officials and soldiers grant the state?not sectarian or tribal divisions - their primary loyalty? Would it not mean that the very predicates upon which the war depended had collapsed...
Even further back, in Hollywood's golden age, stars--including comedy stars--radiated glamour. Cary Grant could whinny, do a pratfall and wear a dress, but he was still one of the handsomest, most seductive men on the planet. Comedy audiences today are not looking for gorgeous people with cute problems; anyway, they're not finding them (with the exception of that pearly, Grant-like anachronism, George Clooney). The movement has been from class to mass and, in some cases, to jackass...