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...constant worry because of the simple and irreversible passage of time. Many of the founders of recently-founded magazines are now seniors and have had to face the issue, at one point or another, of finding someone just as passionate about their projects as they are. Many magazines thus insist on the immediate immersion of new members. “It’s a matter of raising a profile, but also keeping a constant influx of interested people and making room for new young members,” Cowles says...
...theft of some sort. Otherwise why would Nicole Scherzinger sport a ski mask indoors? Or why would Timbaland have video screens installed in the trunk of his whip that read “Target Secured?” There are other questions to ask though. Like why does Timbaland insist on going shirtless for so much of the video? And what, exactly, is this target that’s being secured? In end, the clip’s most valuable asset is its sheer randomness. Shots of Tim whispering into Nicole’s ear are intercut with shots...
Rising to Hayden's defense, the White House this week made clear its view that waterboarding has saved American lives, is legal - and does not constitute torture, as critics insist. A spokesman for Bush said the President would authorize waterboarding for use on future terror suspects if certain standards are met, a spokesman said. Hayden himself banned the technique in 2006 for use in CIA interrogations, and the Pentagon and FBI have done likewise...
...apparent rancor among the other candidates toward Romney has seemed like a schoolyard pact - for example, in the many snarky comments aimed at Romney during the Republican debate on Jan. 5, just before the New Hampshire primary. The campaigns have denied there's any political collusion going on; they insist all of them simply feel the same way about Romney...
...French government officials insist that even before the group's arrest by Chadian police on October 25, they cautioned Zoé's Ark against pursuing certain of their more audacious humanitarian projects in Chad, particularly what appeared to be clandestine adoption arrangements with families back in France. Because of that, it came as little surprise to many observers earlier this month when a French investigating magistrate named several members in the group as defendants in his case for "complicity in the illegal residence of foreign minors in France," "illegally exercising the role as intermediary towards adoption" and "fraud." With...