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WHAT TO THINK The rules seem ridiculous, but they aim to prevent the exiled Dalai Lama, 72, from helping identify newly reincarnated Buddhas, allowing China to handpick people loyal to Beijing...
...their resignation last week after Maliki failed to take any visible steps to address the faction's longstanding concerns, which revolve mainly around the fate of Sunni detainees held by the government and a lack of services in Sunni areas of the country. In the spring, six other ministers loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr abandoned Maliki's government in protest over the Prime Minister's refusal to take a stronger stance against the presence of American forces in Iraq...
...With comments like that, Specter, 77, may sometimes sound more like a Democrat than a loyal Republican. The ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee likes to call himself "an independent." Yet, even though he frequently takes controversial stances that put him at odds with his own party and President Bush, Specter treads carefully...
Keeping Gonzales isn't cost-free. But for now, Bush seems to have decided that the importance of running out the clock on investigations by keeping his loyal Attorney General in place is worth any amount of criticism...
...scary, like Courteney Cox's rapacious gossip-magazine editor in FX's Dirt. Or dedicated but damaged, like Kyra Sedgwick's detective Brenda Johnson, beset with food addictions and relationship problems, in TNT's The Closer. Or earnest but abrasive, like Chloë Sevigny's pushy, shopping-addicted but fiercely loyal and devout polygamist in HBO's Big Love...