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According to Cohen, bills don't get the same critical look in general council meeting that they do in committee. Often, the council is just a rubber stamp for committee projects...
...beginning was happening," Joseph says. "We built this house together with our bare hands." In the mornings Nereciana would don her black-and-white igitenge (a sort of floral skirt) and rubber flip-flops and head out with Joseph to work the fields. Nereciana, a talkative woman, loved recounting the tales of Bakame, a mythical rabbit who is always playing tricks on humans and other animals. And for Joseph, hunched over, listening to his wife, it seemed that even though life was hard, "this was, for us, a time of great hope...
...Rwandan government hopes eventually to have most women deliver in hospitals, that is wishful thinking in a country with only a few thousand hospital beds. The best chance of lowering maternal and infant mortality is equipping midwives with a few simple tools: razor blades, cloth, swaddling, disinfectant, soap and rubber gloves, plus training in hygienic techniques. The cost...
...male star whose face, and body, commandeered the majority of attention. In the film, MARTIN LAWRENCE plays an FBI agent who goes undercover as a grandmother in a Southern town. In addition to floral frocks and pearls, his wardrobe included a 40-lb. fat suit and 3 in. of rubber on his face. "He spent three hours in makeup each day," says director Raja Gosnell. "The forehead, nose and eyes are his, but he needed work on his cheeks, chin and upper lip." Does male vanity know no bounds...
...with another one from the other side of the plate later in the game. Familiar heroes returned: Nomar Garciaparra glittering with four hits in five at-bats and the battered Roman Martinez, struggling to pitch with a shoulder a fan nearby sadly described as being held together by rubber bands. It's a new year with the same schedule: 162 games to be played before we can even think of entering the play-off hunt...