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...need not wait until February to quell their appetite for sexual chocolate. The bakery gets requests for just about any occasion. "We once got [someone to request a cake for] breast implants. Also, a vasectomy. We drew stitches on the penis," our insider confides. Even St. Patrick's Day gets a nod from Sweet-N-Nasty; the Le-prick-aun depicts one of the wee people with a none-too-wee piece. What exactly makes a cake "erotic?" Where do you draw the line between carnal and just disgusting? How do you keep the staff of the Harvard Lampoon...
...battle with McCain," says TIME chief political correspondent Eric Pooley. There are many McCain supporters who want to fall in line with the Bush camp, agreeing with him on issues like tax breaks and military funding, but the Texas governor will have to find a convincing way to quell fears that he has lunged too far to the right on social issues. "As a function of his campaigning in South Carolina, some people don't see Bush as a moderate any more," says Pooley. "They see him as a hard-core conservative...
...from being a mere point of interest, the makeup of this jury could have far-reaching ramifications for this trial - in part because it may quell pro-Diallo protesters' fears that moving the trial from the Bronx to overwhelmingly white Albany helped the defense. And while race is undoubtedly on the minds of everyone watching the trial - Diallo, an unarmed African immigrant living in the Bronx, was shot 41 times by four white police officers - White says Judge Terisi has made it clear there will be no race-baiting in his courtroom. "Tuesday, Terisi stopped a defense lawyer...
...announced a planned merger with Time Warner, the parent company of TIME Daily) can take comfort in the fact that users can opt out of AOL domination by answering "no" to the set-up query, if this case has teeth, such a small concession won't be enough to quell lawyers' lust for dollars - or the public's appetite for seeing an Internet behemoth squirm...
...though, Moscow is winning the home-propaganda battle. Opinion surveys show that around 60% of Russians support the war as a necessity to quell Chechen militants. The generals are sure their Prime Minister will back them to the end. But while "there is political and military consensus on how to do this right," says Sherman Garnett of Michigan State University, an expert on the Russian military, "whether it works or not is another matter...