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Running with Scissors Directed by Ryan Murphy Sony Pictures Entertainment After leaving “Running with Scissors,” I called my mother to tell her I loved her—after you see what Augusten Burroughs endured during his upbringing, you’d have to be without a soul to not react the same way. This is the power of the directorial debut of Ryan Murphy, best known as the creator of the groundbreaking television series “Nip/Tuck,” an adaptation of Augusten Burroughs’ bestseller. Newcomer Joseph Cross takes...
...life as a case study for her research. “Everything I have ever achieved is due to my genes and to my upbringing,” she said. Women who complete primary and secondary school are more likely to educate their children, said Gupta, whose mother and grandmother both completed college. “Eliminating gender disparity in primary and secondary education,” one of the U.N. Millenium Goals with which Gupta is involved, has been cited by the U.N. as central to improving the lives of women and children. In addition to education, Gupta said...
...promised to in her campaign for state auditor. "This whole thing they've done about nursing homes particularly targets women because they feel guilt over putting parents in health care," McCaskill said last week. "Those ads are particularly damaging." She has worked up a counterstriking ad that features her mother, a former politician herself, talking about her father's death in a nursing home, but at the end of last week McCaskill was still deciding whether...
...their taxes. Negative campaigning works better on women voters than men, says pollster Celinda Lake, and late-day tactics may be crucial for Talent's hope of wooing women, because the environment is so hostile for Republicans. Shelly Bloomfield, 47, is an executive with a specialty pharmacy and the mother of two, who voted for George H. W. Bush. She says she's pretty much decided for McCaskill. "I think Talent has some good ideas and I like that he really researches things and doesn't go with the flow. But Talent's on Bush's side and he pretty...
...Born in Cairo in 1946, the son of a cotton industry official and a Nubian mother (the ethnic group found in southern Egypt and northern Sudan), Ibrahim got an engineering degree and started working for a telecommunications company in Sudan. He got his Ph.D. in the then-obscure field of mobile telecommunications, and eventually started a company called Celtel to develop mobile phone services in Africa. By 2005 it was operating all over the continent and was sold to a Kuwaiti company for $6 billion - the source of Ibrahim's wealth. He contends that Celtel never paid a bribe...