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...also been advising Feinstein) compared Davis' situation with his own during impeachment. The key, he told Davis, is to stay engaged and make sure voters see him every day on the job. Saturday's filing deadline found Davis signing environmental legislation at a health-care center in Santa Monica...
...Schwarzenegger told George magazine of his bitterness about the frenzy over Monica Lewinsky and Bill Clinton and the waste of time and energy it represented. "That was another thing I will never forgive the Republican party for," he said. "I was ashamed to call myself a Republican during that period." But Arnold may identify with Clinton for any number of reasons. Two years ago, when he first considered a gubernatorial run, Gary South, a strategist for Governor Gray Davis, sent reporters a story from Premiere magazine that accused the star of repeatedly groping female interviewers and detailed various extramarital shenanigans...
Treatment techniques have also improved. The same issue of J.A.M.A. reported on a school-based program developed by scientists at the Rand Corp. in Santa Monica, Calif., and tested on 126 sixth-graders in two economically disadvantaged schools in East Los Angeles. After 10 sessions, students in the program, most of whom had experienced or witnessed violence involving guns or knives, had significantly fewer symptoms of PTSD than children who got no treatment...
...opera Parsifal and again in connection with Diana, Princess of Wales, who reportedly had some Merovingian blood. (The Wachowski brothers, those cultural magpies, named a villain in The Matrix Reloaded Merovingian, filming him surrounded by Grail-like chalices. His wife in that film was played by Italian actress Monica Bellucci, who will also play Magdalene in Mel Gibson's upcoming Jesus film ... Sorry, this stuff is addictive.) The idea that Magdalene herself was the Holy Grail--the human receptacle for Jesus' blood line--popped up in a 1986 best seller, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, which inspired Brown's Da Vinci...
...Riveting Read Re the article on the novel by Monica Ali, Brick Lane [July 14]: reviewer Aparisim Ghosh is an Asian living in Britain, which I suppose he thinks gives him excellent credentials to castigate Ali's book in no uncertain terms. Well, I am Bangladeshi; I lived in England for 10 years and worked in Brick Lane, a Bangladeshi neighborhood in London. I knew the type of people Ali wrote about very well, and I found her book riveting. It caught the truth of Brick Lane exactly and sensitively. Ali is one of Britain's best young novelists. Zeenat...