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...Benito's fate may hold a clue to what happened to the U.S. last week at the United Nations, although the humiliation was hardly as sharp and the result may turn out to be quite the opposite from the one intended by those who engineered the slap-down. That, of course, would be the Europeans, whose quiet withdrawal of their traditional support for Washington facilitated a victory for China and Cuba?s campaign to keep the U.S. off the commission...
There are just some sickos out there who get a kick out of seeing Snow White bitch-slap Cinderella. Fortunately for Mike Myers, this reviewer is just one of those people...
Referring to the Court's 7-2 decision that the recount violated the requirements of due process and equal protection, Hatch said he was "surprised the Supreme Court didn't slap down nine to zip" the arguments of Gore's legal team...
White House insiders say he merely did what needed to be done to secure the release of the 24 crew members. That's how it is with diplomacy: something is always getting in the way. With the Americans freed, Bush's inclination to slap back at their jailers will still be checked by the $116 billion in annual trade between the two countries. "It in some sense confirms that this is a complicated relationship, a very complex relationship," admits a senior White House adviser. Bush's sterner remarks regarding China in the Rose Garden last Thursday--after the crew...
...sensible practice of yoga does more than slap a Happy Face on your cerebrum. It can also massage the lymph system, says Dr. Mehmet Oz, a cardiac surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan. Lymph is the body's dirty dishwater; a network of lymphatic vessels and storage sacs crisscross over the entire body, in parallel with the blood supply, carrying a fluid composed of infection-fighting white blood cells and the waste products of cellular activity. Exercise in general activates the flow of lymph through the body, speeding up the filtering process; but yoga in particular promotes...