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...should. The PJD is among the most transparent political parties in the country. Its financial accounts are audited by a certified firm. It publishes an annual report on its parliamentary activity and organizes caucuses to select candidates for the legislative elections. In the four municipalities the PJD runs, Shari'a law has not been enforced. The PJD has understood that the electorate demands good governance, not banning alcohol or imposing a particular dress code on women. No liquor shop has been closed, no woman has been forced to wear the veil. This suggests that if the party eventually gains power...
...contradictions we can't explain. We can be a country that commemorates gay marriages in the Sunday papers and exalts gay characters in our sitcoms but still views it as career suicide to be an openly gay actor or athlete or politician unless you represent some very select ZIP codes. So who are the real hypocrites here, and how do we decide, publicly and privately, what conduct to encourage or condemn? Maybe we'll know when the day ever comes that the real political scandal is the discovery of a Senator cheating on his husband...
...film exec based in Hong Kong, where he was vice president of IDG Asia, a venture capital fund and media company in China. Lee says he took the Weinsteins up on their offer because he saw a good business plan: "They have a track record of knowing how to select and market to a Western audience," he says. "Other film funds haven't been able to figure...
...Nation of doing). But tamper with the sanctity of Broadway? Now you're asking for trouble. At least, that seemed to be the reaction in some quarters to Grease: You're the One That I Want, the NBC reality show last winter in which home viewers got to select which two of a dozen young acting hopefuls would get to star in a new Broadway revival of the musical Grease...
TOKYO Fashionable Japanese dressers select Oliver Peoples' retro classic Riley...