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...ever loved. Gordeeva had grown up in his arms, and he had died in hers, and though she needs to move beyond that now, the questions always drag her back. Gordeeva, 26, folds her body in half to sit down and is so tiny the chair looks like a prop. She sits impatiently, tragically beautiful, forever fractured. And then she says, "I'm not so strong inside as I look outside...
...Never mind that the IMF functions as a U.S.-driven-body that tends to open up foreign markets to U.S. companies. Here's an easy-to-understand reason to support it: The bailout would prop up Mom-and-Pop mutual funds which stand to lose millions in an Asian collapse...
...Force Risking Lives of Trainees? Last year, the U.S. military lost pilots in aircraft ranging from F-114 fighters to C-130 transport planes. But a TIME magazine investigation finds that the most dangerous plane in the military may well be the Air Force's prop-driven T-3 trainer...
...whole conception of a presidentially mandated national conversation is nonsense, indeed pernicious nonsense. It is nonsense, first, to think that America suffers from a dearth of conversation about race. We are obsessed with race. We can't stop talking about race. Prop. 209, O.J., Piscataway, the gerrymandering cases, race and the death penalty, race and the law schools, race and the Oscars, race and baseball (black attendance is down): Is there an issue under the American sun that has not been given a racial cast...
...other clubs seem closer to head shops than hospitals. Dennis Peron, a pro-pot proselytizer who helped draft Prop 215 and runs the San Francisco Cannabis Cultivators Club, admits he sells pot for everything from premenstrual syndrome to the blues. "All use of marijuana is medical," says Peron. "It makes you smarter. It touches the right brain and allows you to slow down, to smell the flowers. We're living in a very stressful world. It can and should be used for anxiety and depression...