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...aftermath of Ariel Sharon's massive stroke and sudden exit from politics, the rise of this gruff right-winger has become the most intriguing aspect of an otherwise lackluster electoral campaign. His plan is controversial not only for some Israelis who see it as akin to ethnic cleansing, but also, not surprisingly, among the Arabs. However much Israeli Arabs complain about being treated as second-class citizens, most of them say they prefer living in Israel to being submerged inside the West Bank?s poverty and turmoil...
...When Washington, D.C., pimp Jaron Brice recruited a 14-year-old Maryland girl, he first took her to the back of his purple Chevrolet Caprice and played the 1998 HBO documentary "Pimps Up, Ho's Down," according to prosecutor Sharon Marcus-Kurn, who got Brice convicted in federal court earlier this month for sex trafficking of a minor and other related charges. The film, testified the girl, taught her the terms of her new relationship with her pimp: she would have sex with men ("tricks") at a specific block ("the track") and hand over all the money she made ("break...
...recipient of the Harvard Foundation’s Humanitarian of the Year award, spoke in Memorial Church last night about his trials and successes as a fashion designer and philanthropist. The Foundation’s award recognizes individuals who have made significant humanitarian contributions, such as past recipients actress Sharon Stone and Nobel laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The man behind a multi-billion dollar fashion line, Hilfiger drew the Foundation’s attention for his support of education and health programs, such as “Camp Tommy,” a summer program for disadvantaged urban youth...
...rural areas this means that a lot of women who would have had to drive for miles and miles to find Plan B will be able to find it at their local Wal-Mart," says Sharon Camp, founder of the company that developed Plan B and now president of the Alan Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive-health research group. Because the drug's effectiveness drops 50% every 12 hours and is limited to the first 72 hours after unprotected sex, proponents of Plan B say any obstacle--a doctor who is unavailable to write a prescription or a pharmacy that...
...Tocqueville - he finds representative of America's vindictive attitude toward incarceration. Like De Tocqueville, Lévy encounters many of the leading lights of the day: George W. Bush ("a cunning child"), Hillary Clinton (driven by the Monica Lewinsky affair, he implausibly surmises), Barack Obama (impressive in every way), Sharon Stone (angry at Bush), Warren Beatty ("intelligent and precise"), Norman Mailer (at 82, "eyes fixed on eternity"), Samuel Huntington (whose Hispanophobia alarms him) and Woody Allen who, when Lévy gets personal, snaps, "She's not my daughter." Lévy also gets personal with ordinary Americans, who charm...