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...interest rates. Rudd is the fourth Labor leader Howard has faced in three years. The P.M. always appeared comfortable rumbling with Beazley, less so against the maverick Mark Latham, who assumed the Labor leadership in 2003 at a similar point in the electoral cycle. With a new deputy leader, Julia Gillard, 45, Labor's first couple is raw, untried and energetic. But Rudd is in a hurry. Are his colleagues, the media and voters ready for the ride...
...Nicole Kidman just beat Julia Roberts and Reese Witherspoon to become...
...pieces played were all rife with dramatic crescendos, the show as a whole formed an overarching crescendo in both performance complexity and tone.The concert marked the second performance of HRO’s 199th season and featured three powerful pieces, one of which included twin guest performers Emily and Julia Bruskin of the well-reputed Claremont Trio. The night’s exciting undercurrent was palpable as the audience filed into the theater’s 1166 seats and cheered more boisterously than usual for the black-clad performers as they warmed up under the watchful statues of James Otis...
Some of the challenges go even deeper. "I did not realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Dr. Julia Kim writes from Swaziland, north of Lesotho. Women traditionally turn over all their income to their husbands, she says, and defer to them on matters of treatment--a practice Kim struggled with when trying to convince one father that immediate care was needed for his daughter whose immune system had collapsed...
...realize how much women lack basic rights in this country," Julia Kim writes in an e-mail from Swaziland. "The lack of women's rights has greatly impacted the HIV epidemic here. The only property that a woman legally owns is whatever she has purchased with money that she has made on her own. But when speaking with women in Mpuluzi [a small town in rural Swaziland, close to the western border], many of them told us that whatever money was made from basketweaving was taken by their husbands...