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...SATC, what keeps the characters young is their abiding friendship: the sisterhood of shared confidences and ego-boosting, of advice offered in good faith and accepted in gratitude, of a timely phone call when a pal's spirits are low. ("I just called," one woman says, nicely paraphrasing Stevie Wonder, "to make sure you weren't hanging from your shower rod.") Learning and hugging. There's lots of that here - woman to woman and man to woman - which satisfies the movie's fantasy fulfillment of both amity and eros...
...Though efforts to provide documentation for landowners have been ramped up - almost 1 million land titles have been granted since 2004, according to the World Bank - there are millions more to go. Cambodians' scramble to secure their rights speaks to a fundamental anxiety: faith in the law is dismally low. For the past two years, the country has ranked near the bottom of Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index, and in a 2007 World Bank study, only 18% of respondents said they thought judges were honest. "Corruption is so pervasive it's part of the culture," says Theary Seng, executive...
...society can hide a multitude of sins. A senior police officer in Jerusalem acknowledges that the instincts of the Haredi community to cover up such crimes undermines the authorities' ability to investigate and prosecute offenders: "We're aware of this phenomenon of sex abuse among Haredis, but an extremely low number of these cases are ever reported...
...sitting slumped over a computer all day and not doing normal exercise. In previous generations when we were digging ditches or pitching hay, there was a type of what we would now call functional exercise where we're exercising the whole body. And that's what prevented low back and knee and hip and all the things we're seeing today. So we talk about the importance of core exercise and give a program that you can do at home and in the office, not requiring any equipment...
...known him for 48 years, almost half a century. We met on a film in 1960. It was a low-budget black-and-white independent film called War Hunt. He was an actor. I was an actor. It was the first film I ever acted in. He and I became friends on that film and we became I would say kindred spirits. Like any novice artists starting out, we decided that we knew everything that was wrong about the production. We commiserated on it and we kind of bonded on that. We had very similar sensibilities and I think very...