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...Gadd's return to the U.K. has received front-page treatment by the British press, which has run headlines like, "The Unspeakable Depravity of 'Uncle Gary.'" Child advocates hope that hype will help reform a legal system which too often lets pedophiles slip through its cracks. "He's shone a spotlight on U.K. sex offenders who go overseas and off the radar, and target children where they are highly vulnerable," says Zoe Hilton, policy advisor at London-based National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. She's calling for governments to work more closely with one another...
Conversation with Hutz flits from Charlie Chaplin (a hero) to comparing the melancholy of Eastern Europeans with the concept of duende in the Spanish arts. Then he'll slip back into casual mode, calling Madonna, with whom he performed at Live 8 in front of two billion people, "a great chick to hang with...
...says. "There wasn't anything wrong, I fell. It was a mistake." While she normally scores above 16, she had to be content with a 15.05. Then came Liukin, who has one of the most difficult routines in the world and might have been shaken to see Memmel slip off the bars. After a typically flawless program, Liukin uncharacteristically landed awkwardly and fell onto her back, dropping her score; in qualifying for the Olympics, she had earned more than 17 points for the same program...
...family gates that have wider lanes to accommodate parents traveling with small children. Just on the other side of the security gates, in front of a luminescent blue wall, architects have thoughtfully installed a long-overdue innovation: a 225-foot bench, where passengers can reassemble their carry-ons and slip back into their stilettos...
...course, after Gramm let slip his inconvenient truth, McCain publicly rejected the notion that our economic pain is in our heads. So did Barack Obama, who quipped that America doesn't need another Dr. Phil. They've got a point too. Unemployment, inflation, a $9 trillion national debt and $4-per-gal. gas are very real phenomena. It's no mere figment of our imagination that prices are rising at their fastest rate in 27 years. It also just so happens that IndyMac really was dangerously overextended. The panic was ultimately justified...