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...cross Candy Land with an overtly sexualized one-time child actress turned ghetto-funk star? Fergie’s new video “Fergalicious” is Willy Wonka’s wet dream. Fergie prances through candy-cane forests and lollipop trees wearing the flouncy frocks that remind us of childhood—except they are a whole lot shorter than you remembered. She later titillates with the most revealing girl-scout costume you’ve ever seen. In the words of the song, which seem to capture the essence of both middle-school pubescence and this...
...Pentagon boss Robert M. Gates faced Senate confirmation - for CIA director in 1991- he put a small good-luck charm in his pocket. It was a smooth, white oblong stone he'd picked up while hiking in Washington State's Olympic Range. Gates put it in his pocket to remind him during the tough confirmation hearings that there was life after Washington if his nomination went down to defeat...
...administrator of Iraq, had hoped seeing Saddam on the dock would allow Iraqis to exorcise the demons he had unleashed upon them during his long reign. More recently, as the country descended into a sectarian war, some U.S. and Iraqi officials clung to the hope that the trial would remind Shi'ites and Sunnis how they had once been unified in misery under his rule...
...concerning academic dishonesty. The Internet now has hundreds of sites where teachers, employers, and your significant other can check what has been cited or appropriated from millions of other sites. Plagiarism is, at least as feared as the avian flu. But recent articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education remind us that even many professors do not really understand plagiarism, let alone their students...
It’s not just cost-conscious, either. The blog is also relevant for women who don’t have the waif-like bodies of heroin-chic models, and Sulmers will candidly remind readers that skinny jeans aren’t for everyone...