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...August (Queen Latifah), who runs the bee farm, is the matriarch of the clan, beaming wisdom and common sense to a child voracious for any human touch. May (Brit actress Sophie Okonedo) has long been in mourning for her dead twin sister April. Her emotions are deep and constantly near the surface; she is given to weeping and keening when she sees the pain of others. June (Alicia Keys), a teacher, is the no-nonsense one. With her high forehead, Afro coiffure and commanding hauteur, she is a preview of militant black women like Kathleen Cleaver and Angela Davis...
...reasons for his firing were unethical and unjustified. He maintained he was dismissed because he refused to succumb to pressure from the Palin administration to fire Alaska State Trooper Mike Wooten, who was at that time going through a bitter divorce and custody battle with Palin's younger sister, Molly McCann. Monegan claimed the governor's office had contacted him more than two dozen times pressuring him to fire Wooten...
...wasn't even around his father," Martin replied. And she went on: "Then my sister-in-law and my pastor helped me out. They gave me places to go online to learn the truth." Her sister-in-law is so committed to Obama that she has volunteered to knock on doors in her apartment complex. "She ran into two old guys who were for McCain, but all the rest were leaning toward Obama...
...shop, the young woman remains indefatigably chipper. And that's just the beginning of Leigh's film. As it develops she brings her good cheer to all kinds of situations - an encounter with a homeless man, a bully in her classroom, a difficult relationship with her more bourgeois sister and her dismal husband. Poppy's peppiness sustains her in other, less dramatically pointed ways as well. Like a lot of single working women, she makes a life with her girl friends - disco dancing, afternoons in the park, modest attempts at self-improvement - that to a degree compensates for their lack...
Sail Away. Cunard's Queen Elizabeth 2 will depart her dock on New York City's West Side at 5 p.m. on Oct. 16 to make her final transatlantic voyage to England. Due to become a floating hotel in Dubai, she will meet her sister ship, Cunard's ocean liner Queen Mary 2, at the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor at 6:15 p.m. After a send off by tugboats and NYC Fire Department boats, the two ships will sail to England in tandem. Good viewing points are along Hudson River Park and Battery Park...