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...Republican organizations during the 2000 and 2004 election cycles. In 2004, the Egans were the only family to field three “Rangers”—the title given to those who raised over $200,000 for George W. Bush. Egan served as US Ambassador to Ireland from...
...honoring and supporting its women. In no European country outside Scandinavia do women make up as large a proportion of the workforce as in France - thanks in part to a generous system of maternity support, which has also given France Europe's second highest fertility rate, behind only Ireland. Women run France's Defense Ministry, one of its most prestigious math programs, the world's biggest builder of nuclear power plants, the national theater and the employers' federation (see Leading Ladies). With all that - plus an abiding conceit that it epitomizes the avant-garde - France should have been among...
...gave almost $900,000 to Republican organizations during the 2000 and 2004 election cycles. In 2004, the Egans were the only family to field three "Rangers"—the title given to those who raised over $200,000 for George W. Bush. Egan served as US Ambassador to Ireland from...
...School for Sheen West Wing actor goes collegiate He got to be President without even a high school diploma. Now, with his NBC hit off the air, Martin Sheen, 66, is headed to college. He starts next week at the National University of Ireland...
...Conversely, foreign ratings boards are tougher on the most extravagant forms of movie violence, to which the MPAA board is so famously indulgent. In Britain, Germany, Ireland, Finland, Hong Kong, the Philippines and most of Canada, someone under 18 couldn't see, say, Saw, the grisly horror film that was rated R in the U.S. There are dozen of similar examples. The foreign boards obviously think they're protecting kids from traumatic images. But if you were to ask Hollywood distributors not to show splatter movies to kids, they'd probably squawk, "But that's our main audience...