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...withhold their ballots in a crucial July 22 vote of confidence. While allegations of "suitcase politics" are nothing new in India, it just wasn't cricket to theatrically air dirty laundry in such a public forum. Afterward, Somnath Chatterjee, India's lower-house speaker, called it "a very sad day in the history of Parliament...
...fact, it has been a sad few weeks. It's often said that the world's largest democracy is also one of its messiest. But even India's jaded electorate, which is accustomed to political scandals, was stunned by the blatant horse-trading and strident mudslinging that led up to the confidence vote, which determined whether Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Congress Party - led coalition would remain in power. The administration won by a 275-256 margin, with 10 abstentions, ensuring its survival for now. But in the run-up to the vote, including two days of acrimonious parliamentary...
Politics is supposed to be Hollywood for ugly people, but in Los Angeles, we can't even let them have that. Here, Heather Thomas - the Fall Guy actress who was a leader in bikini-poster sales in the sad, dark days before we could see famous people naked all the time - is the city's most important connector in Democratic politics. She's been able to do this partly because she's smart, partly because she's a terrific networker and mostly because she married one of L.A.'s richest lawyers. Thomas has held fund raisers for John Edwards, Barbara...
...humid sexuality at the start of the two-hour extravaganza (topless acrobat on a phallic pole, Madonna easing a whip past her crotch, dancers gyrating in auto-massage), but it soon gives way to simpler, sunnier images. For Rain, Madonna dons demure black; the look says, ''Listen to the sad ballad, the sweet harmonies.'' For Express Yourself, she's dolled up in royal blue bell-bottoms and a frizz wig, to pay homage to the gaudy innocence of the Cyndi Lauper era. The Wayback Machine keeps spinning until we are in Weimar * Berlin, with Madonna in Dietrich drag warbling Teutonic...
...manage nuclear weapons, atomic energy and gene splitting. My hope is that we can; my fear is that we cannot. James R. Vernon Fort Worth The picture of the herring gull sitting proudly but snarled by the plastic mesh of a six-pack haunts me and makes me terribly sad. Richard N. Sorensen Lincoln...