Word: schoolgirlisms
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...just more calculated. The former shock mistress brought tears to Oprah Winfrey's studio audience when she described feeling her baby kicking on Mother's Day. Department stores may be pushing the dolled-up "Evita look," but Madonna has switched to pastel colors, soft makeup and a demure, Catholic-schoolgirl hairstyle. (She donned the Evita look for the film's Hollywood premiere, but otherwise, she says, "it's something for special occasions. You're not going to see me with my hair up in a chignon, wearing padded shoulders and a nipped-in-at-the-waist suit every day, that...
...have to concede at last that the experiment with a sexually integrated military has failed. Some no doubt saw the end coming when three American G.I.s shamed their nation by raping a Japanese schoolgirl in 1995. Others, more prescient, must have realized years ago that in the modern age of "peacekeeping," a military that runs on testosterone is about as useful as a platoon armed with maces and pikes. So enough of this indiscriminate mixing of the genders, any realist will conclude, it's time to shift to an all-female military...
TOKYO: Tensions over U.S. military bases in Okinawa are rising once again as the one-year anniversary of the rape of a Japanese schoolgirl by three U.S. servicemen nears. About 3,000 landowners are refusing to renew their leases with the U.S. military, leading to a court battle between the ruling government and Okinawa's Governor Masahide Ota. On Monday, Japan's Supreme Court, as expected, upheld the government policy of forcing landowners to lease land to the U.S. military. Outside the court, dozens of anti-base demonstrators protested the ruling, while others from the right wing -->