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...from an Arabic nation. “I’ve never been to war without lipgloss,” she said. About halfway through the event, the conversation veered away from war reporting to a discussion about the complications of attractiveness in the journalism business. In a Washington Post profile last year, Logan, who recently re-married in Nov. 2008, complained that her life was being reduced to “tabloid fodder.” And at Kirkland on Friday, she acknowledged that while she has attracted undue attention because of her blonde hair and good looks...
...reddest of red states, one with a profound sense of its own identity, independent history and anti-Washington sentiment. "Texas has yet to learn submission to any oppression," Perry told roaring tea-party crowds in Austin and Fort Worth, quoting Sam Houston, Texas' founding father. (See pictures of a post-Dubya Crawford, Texas...
Spector, Phil • one can only imagine the thoughts going through the head of - "Oh my God, I'm not going to be able to terrorize women with guns for at least 18 years" - during the taking of the post-murder conviction mug shot...
...gone for 20 years, Hu maintains a complicated reputation on the mainland. "Hu is still in a kind of limbo or political purgatory," Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a China scholar at the University of Hong Kong, said this week in an interview published in Hong Kong's South China Morning Post. "He is not totally taboo and people can speak about him but at the same time his status remains ambiguous...
...very long after Hu Yaobang's death on April 15 - two years after Deng removed him from the leadership post - that members of this generation of activists gathered together. The meetings started on April 17, when 700 people went to Tiananmen Square. The next day, 1,500 students demonstrated in front of Zhongnanhai, the Chinese leadership compound, and demanded that Hu's political standing - blemished by his removal from power - be rehabilitated. "By the time Hu's funeral came around, 200,000 students had settled in the large public square, a place that would remain the center of activities until...