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...Kitt was most comfortable in her first home, the cabaret. At Manhattan's Cafe Carlyle, where she played regularly, she showed that, even in her 70s, her seductive charm was intact. (The proof is in her last recording, Eartha Kitt, Live at the Carlyle.) There she would vamp her way through the maze of tables, cozying up to a new generation of sugar daddies - or maybe the same old one - and singing her hits from a half-century before as if she were still the hot young sensation, still a kitten on the keys...
...same move as Lisa Madigan in trying to get the governor ousted, Birkett insisted he would not. "Illinois is currently the laughingstock of the nation," he claimed. It was a power play by the AG, he said, and one that stood little chance of success since it requires some proof that the governor is somehow incapacitated - not just allegedly corrupt. "I'm aware of the rule, but I would not have. It has nothing to do with a public-opinion nightmare, which the governor has; it has to do with a mental or physical disability. You don't use your...
...Critics of the Church hierarchy see such pronouncements as proof of Catholicism's unhealthy "obsession" with sexual matters. In his book Sex and Heaven, Catholic writer John Portmann argues that the Vatican has made having "correct sex" the singular virtue for achieving salvation. In just the past month, the Vatican has announced its opposition to a United Nations proposal to protect gays from being criminalized and punished by governments for their orientation, and released a doctrinal office document reinforcing the Church's opposition to assisted fertility and stem cell research...
...join NATO. "People do talk of another war, but I don't think it can really happen again", says Muharem Bazdulj, a prominent Sarajevo-based writer and a columnist for the daily Oslobodjenje newspaper. "The fact that the military, of all institutions, just successfully underwent drastic reform is a proof of that. But we do need long-term stability, and that requires joint effort both at local and the international level", Bazdulj told TIME...
Warren, Rick •giving of donuts to gays by during protest against is cited by as proof of lack of homophobia...