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...several steps further. Under the policy, NGOs that applied for family-planning funds from the U.S. Agency on International Development (USAID) had to refrain from using any of their own funds to provide abortion (with exceptions for cases of rape or incest or to save the life of the mother). The organizations also were not eligible if they lobbied to make or keep abortion legal in their own country or if they provided abortion referrals - a requirement that led many opponents of the policy to dub it a "global gag rule...
Although Caroline Kennedy's rather disorderly withdrawal from consideration to replace Hillary Clinton in the U.S. Senate may have overshadowed New York Governor David Paterson's actual choice, Representative Kirsten Gillibrand is not someone who stays in the background. The ambitious mother of two fulfills two criteria Paterson reportedly had in mind: she's a woman, and she's an Upstater with deep family ties to the Albany area...
...chose the wrong ones, or the right ones in the wrong films. It's sweet that Angelina Jolie will accompany her beau Brad (Best Actor nominee for Benjamin Button) to the ceremony, but a shame that she was made a Best Actress finalist for her work as the desperate mother in Changeling, a performance so miscalibrated that it yanks the story out of its period whenever she's on screen. (Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, took three nominations; Eastwood's much superior Gran Torino, none.) It would have made far more sense, though obviously not to the Academy...
...family as an influence, but the comparison is inevitable. Her grandfather is Charlie Chaplin, and her great-grandfather Eugene O’Neill. “Aurélia’s Oratorio” is itself the brainchild of Thierrée’s mother, Victoria Thierrée Chaplin, who is widely considered to be responsible for the rebirth of the modern circus. In what may be a family tradition, the play is largely wordless, except for Martinez repeatedly calling Aurélia’s name. This, combined with the plaintive male tones of the phone...
...Born in Waterville, Maine in 1933. His mother was a Lebanese immigrant, his father an orphaned son of Irish immigrants who worked as a janitor at Colby College. As a youngster, Mitchell was a talented student, but frequently found himself overshadowed by the athletic exploits of his brothers...