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...American Association of Housecall Veterinarians (AAHV) has increased 150% in the past decade. LaBoit Inc., a company that manufactures mobile-vet vans, has seen sales increase 40% over each of the past five years. "More and more, you're beginning to see it," says AAHV president Dr. Jonathan Leshanski. "People are aware that there's someone who can come and help their...
...best moments in Step Across This Line , Salman Rushdie's provocatively named book of essays (Jonathan Cape; 454 pages), comes when the author is invited on stage at a U2 concert in 1993 by his friend Bono. At the time, Rushdie was in hiding from Muslim assassins after Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini issued a fatwa against him for his allegedly blasphemous novel, The Satanic Verses . Bono, ever the good guy, meant the invitation as a gesture of support. To Rushdie, the moment was a revelation. He suddenly felt "what it's like to have 80,000 fans cheering...
...Donna Minkowitz argued in the Nation magazine that "["Enterprise"] is the first Star Trek really interested in punishing women." That's an exaggeration, but Trek does seem to be returning to the gender roles of the original series, in which Kirk was a spectacular cad. While the new captain, Jonathan Archer, doesn't canoodle much, he's like Kirk in another way. In 2000 conservative writer John Podhoretz noted in the Weekly Standard that while the original series "promoted an idealistic vision of the U.S. as an exporter of democracy," fluffy '90s Treks were "consumed by ... multiculturalism and pacifism." Enterprise...
...NETHERLANDS Sources Unnamed In a landmark case with far-reaching implications for the media, former Washington Post reporter Jonathan Randal won his appeal against having to testify at the war-crimes tribunal in the Hague. Randal appealed after the tribunal ordered him to appear as a witness for the prosecution in the trial of ex-Bosnian Serb Deputy Prime Minister Radoslav Brdjanin. Randal argued war correspondents and their sources could be placed in danger if they were considered potential witnesses...
After a brief moment of confusion on Chopra’s part, the meaning of the singing dawned upon the president-elect, said commission member Jonathan D. Einkauf...