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...also an election, of sorts, in January: the Golden Globe Awards. The TV awards for Best Comedy and Best Drama went, respectively, to ABC's suburban mystery Desperate Housewives and FX's plastic-surgery saga Nip/Tuck. The former is the highest-rated new series of the TV season; the latter, one of the highest-rated dramas on basic cable. Both are water-cooler shows about love, sex, fidelity and lies, mainly among heterosexual men and women...
...Election Committee within six months. The question?now hotly discussed by Hong Kong's many lawyers?is whether the new Chief Executive merely serves out the rest of Tung's term to 2007, or whether he gets a new five-year term to 2010. If it's the latter, then the constitutional changes currently being debated to expand the Election Committee so as to include a more representative cross-section of society by 2007 could be delayed or rendered moot. Says Ronny Tong, a pro-democracy legislator: "If this is a play, then it's a very well-planned maneuver...
...imagination and a sewing machine to create one-of-a-kind fashions. The movement is driven by style-conscious women who are bored by the cookie-cutter apparel sold at stores like Gap and Banana Republic. It's spread by websites like craftster.org and getcrafty.com which serve as latter-day sewing circles--places to trade ideas, share patterns and post pictures of your best work. And it's made possible in part by innovative hardware: a new generation of easy-to-use sewing machines equipped with LCD screens that allow you to view and manipulate stitches even before they...
When defenseman Dylan Reese tested Vermont netminder Joe Fallon from just inside the blue line, forwards Dan Murphy and Brendan Bernakevitch had only to battle each other to reach the rebound first, with the latter poking home the go-ahead score...
...from the heavy competition in the sciences.” There are two possible conclusions: either women are somehow less able to cope with the stress of placement exams than men, or placement exams are generally stressful, in point of fact, for all students. I tend to believe the latter explanation: the tests are scary, period. Their difficulty and the stress that surrounds them cannot be used as an explanation for the underrepresentation of women in the sciences at Harvard...