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...move earned him admirers and enemies. In 1997 a group of men thought to be from Mugabe's secret service, the Central Intelligence Organization, burst into Tsvangirai's 10th-floor offices in Harare and tried to hurl him through a window, but Tsvangirai fought off his attackers. He formed the opposition MDC in 1999. Despite at least three other attempts on his life and, according to the MDC, four arrests, he has fought Mugabe in every election since...
...weight loss. MTV's Made gives outcast kids self-confidence; the CW's Beauty and the Geek does the same for socially challenged nerds and academically challenged hotties. Supernanny gives tough love to out-of-control kids (and parents); A&E's Intervention, to addicts. On TLC's The Secret Life of a Soccer Mom, women who gave up careers to stay home go back to work for a week, then reconcile themselves with their life choices. Even TV Land has a new feel-good reality show, The Big 4-0, which helps people come to terms with turning...
...even makeover shows have become about sprucing up your psyche. Carson Kressley (Queer Eye for the Straight Guy) makes over women with body-image issues on Lifetime's How to Look Good Naked. To Kressley, the secret is finding not the right bra size but the right frame of mind, shedding not pounds but psychological baggage. Like a Dove commercial writ large, he gets plus-size women to see that they're sexy through such subtle steps as plastering cheesecake pictures of them on billboards and videotaping the hubba-hubba comments of passersby. Likewise, on the Bravo show Tim Gunn...
...comfort inside the classroom. Proponents of single-sex education say this confidence stems from a non-coed environment with uninhibited academic development, which often translates into academic success and a willingness to debate in that battle-field of a Harvard section.BOYS WILL BE BOYSIt isn’t a secret that a certain amount of gender stereotyping occurs during high school—especially at a testosterone-jammed all-boys prep school. And this stereotyping, that is frequently exacerbated at single-sex schools, can oftentimes affect a student’s college career. Alexander M. Fuller...
...elections last December that brought Samak to power. (The current P.M. openly campaigned as Thaksin's proxy, since the former leader is currently barred from re-entering Thai politics.) At an astrological ceremony on Sunday, Varin played host to associates of the military regime who have made no secret of their distaste for Thailand's new Prime Minister. Samak fired back, accusing Varin of political favoritism and pointing out cases in which the fortuneteller's prognostications had failed to materialize. Case in point: Varin forecast that the opposition Democrat Party, not Samak's People's Power Party, would win last...