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...have things inflicted on me every day that I don't like. I happen to be allergic to dogs, I'm not screaming for a total dog ban.' JOE JACKSON, pop singer and opponent of Britain's new ban on smoking in public places. Jackson recently moved back to Britain from New York City after lighting up in bars and restaurants was banned there...
...saying that if the government doesn't cleanse the capital of sin, they will. "A man goes to medical school and becomes a doctor," says Aman. "We go to a madrasah, so we must practice Islam. But the government is not letting us. How can we allow this to happen...
...Rick Perry in a letter to veto the legislation. "Motion pictures made in the United States are the most popular form of entertainment worldwide because filmmakers are free to tell stories on film without fear of government censorship." Perry dismissed such concerns, saying censorship was "not going to happen" in Texas. But Stevenson warns that the caveat will backfire and hurt the Texas' effort to woo back film business it has been losing to other states, which have passed more generous tax credit and incentive programs...
...kind of spreading the wings a little bit,” Green says. “I’m one of the hot up-and-coming female coaches in the country right now. I just happen to coach at Harvard...
...brigade combat teams will be reduced to 15 by August 2008. There is growing speculation in the military that Bush will try to pre-empt the Petraeus testimony by announcing a gradual drawdown from 20 to 15 combat brigades later this summer. "As if that isn't going to happen anyway," a senior officer told me. "But it may give us some political breathing space" - that is, it may subvert the Democrats' calls for a more rapid withdrawal - "if the President makes a big deal of announcing we're drawing down...