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...events ranging from soccer and cricket to volleyball, softball and arm-wrestling. The Games are staged according to strict Islamic codes, meaning that girls are separated from boys, staging their events in a large gymnasium. Inside, away from the eyes of men, some players remove their hijabs, but most prefer to keep their heads, and skin, covered...
...bride, Adele, is about to be his ex-wife. Invited to Berlin to mount an exhibition of her paintings, she tells Caden she'd prefer that he stay home; she'll take Olive with her. Soon, it's clear, mother and child are gone for good. That leaves Caden open to the adoring advances of Hazel (Samantha Morton), who runs the box office at his theater. Her attentions hardly distract Caden from his obsessive suspicions of a physical breakdown: a bathroom accident has left him with a scar on his forehead and the skin disease known as sycosis. Before long...
...Polls show that people would strongly prefer to elect a Democrat for President. Republicans are competitive only because Obama and Clinton both do worse in the polls than a generic Democrat, and McCain runs better than a generic Republican. If McCain becomes a Bush Republican, as the Democrats hope, he will no longer stand a chance...
...Those slogans and bumper stickers have long given comfort to - and helped solicit donations from - staunch abortion rights supporters. Many NARAL state affiliates whose members come from the ranks of second-wave feminists who prefer purist positions have been openly uneasy with this new openness on the part of the national organization, as well as NARAL's relative openness to the focus on abortion reduction currently being embraced by congressional Democrats. The Obama endorsement reignited those concerns, so much so that at least a half dozen NARAL affiliates from states including Pennsylvania, Missouri and New York wasted no time distancing...
...What makes doing the right thing on energy difficult is that it would almost inevitably involve raising costs now, with higher taxes on oil, increased subsidies for other energy sources or higher energy-efficiency standards for vehicles and homes - or all three. Economists tend to prefer the first of these approaches because taxes on gas, oil or fossil fuels in general tamp demand and allow the market - rather than members of Congress - to sift out the best alternatives...