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...replace Couric with a woman, but most of the successors floated--Anderson Cooper, Scott Pelley, Harry Smith--are white men. (Diane Sawyer is a possibility, but that would mean going the celebrity-morning-show-host route again.) And CBS executives have speculated that viewers were not "ready" for a woman--maybe because network chiefs believe it, maybe because it's easier to blame society than themselves (while casting themselves as brave pioneers...
...erotics of abstinence. Their tension comes from prolonged, superhuman acts of self-restraint. There's a scene midway through Twilight in which, for the first time, Edward leans in close and sniffs the aroma of Bella's exposed neck. "Just because I'm resisting the wine doesn't mean I can't appreciate the bouquet," he says. "You have a very floral smell, like lavender ... or freesia." He barely touches her, but there's more sex in that one paragraph than in all the snogging in Harry Potter...
...dispossession of the Palestinian Arabs and the culpability of Israel, without acknowledgment of the injustice done to these refugees by their own leaders or of the violence inflicted upon Jewish populations in Muslim countries, hinders constructive discussion of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Commemorating the Nakba has become another means of mourning the creation of the State of Israel, an event that Hamas and many of Israel’s neighbors still seek to reverse today through rocket attacks, kidnappings, and suicide bombings. While continual demands are made for a refugee right of return, the demand is focused exclusively...
...that doesn't mean Obama is standing pat. "Senator Clinton has been trying a lot of different approaches and a lot of different criticism. This is sort of the kitchen sink strategy," Obama told reporters in New Albany, Indiana, Wednesday after a town hall meeting. "And you know, I know that people like to talk tough and use a lot of rhetoric about fighting and obliterating and all that stuff. You know that I have always believed that if you are tough you don't have to talk about...
...That could mean a number of things. "These are very heartbreaking kinds of decisions to make," Sheeran told reporters in London on Tuesday, in between meetings with U.K. officials. Already the WFP has started reducing the amount of food given in rations to many of the 20 million children it feeds in schools. Rations in Darfur where the WFP feeds millions of displaced people were cut this month after bandits attacked trucks delivering them and killed the drivers. But the very last service that the WFP would cut, Sheeran says, is in rations for pregnant and nursing mothers...