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...quite right with the world that accepted her so readily. "My best friends have been boys since the time I was born," she notes. In a social scene divided by gender, however, she went from companion to guest. "I’d get invited over for Thursday, Friday, Saturday nights," Daum found, but her male hosts would never accept her—or any "her," for that matter—as a true equal deserving of membership. "The most insulting part about it is that they’re saying ‘I don’t want...
...Problem: You listen to hip-hop while getting wasted on Saturday nights, but you’ve never listened to indie in your life...
...Saturday, many Syrians will celebrate their Independence Day by driving up into the foothills of Mount Hermon and picnicking amid the apple blossoms in that portion of the Golan Heights that remains under Syrian control. In recent years, the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad has used the occasion to call for Israel - which has occupied most of the Golan Heights since the war of 1967 - to return the territory in exchange for an end to the conflict between the two countries, which have officially been at war since the creation of the Jewish state in 1948. But the Syrian...
...unclear how much resistance Bakiyev will be able to muster. Alleged eyewitness reports posted on Kyrgyz Internet forums claim that Bakiyev travels around the south with an entourage of 20 bodyguards, while his home is surrounded by about 500 heavily armed men. Still, he admitted to the BBC on Saturday that he has "no real levers of power." On Saturday, he called for the U.N. to send peacekeepers to Kyrgyzstan to prevent further bloodshed. But his calls for foreign help are likely to prove futile. Both Russia and the U.S. have promised aid to the government that toppled...
...chief concern of the U.S. is to prevent the new leadership from kicking out the U.S. air base in the northern city of Manas, which is a vital transport link for America's war in nearby Afghanistan. About 50,000 coalition troops passed through it in March alone. On Saturday, Otunbayeva assured U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton that the new Kyrgyz government would abide by previous agreements to let Manas operate. But the Russian government has lobbied hard to force Kyrgyzstan to evict it, with a senior Russian official telling reporters on April 8 that "in Kyrgyzstan, there should...