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...innocuous enough, but “Hot?” “Crowded?” I turn nervously to the back flap. There’s Friedman, his moustache a hairy smear across his upper lip. Dude looks like a 70s swinger. DECLARE YOURSELF: SPEAK, CONNECT, ACT, VOTE by Declare Yourself This book, aimed at teenagers, includes essays by 50 people on the importance of democratic participation. Apparently, Tyra Banks contributed. Now this next bit isn’t quite related to the book, but here is how Ms. Banks revealed her biggest beauty secret...
...uncompromising modernity of the new writing is also uplifting. Speak to any of these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more self-consciously literary sagas set in some supposedly more romantic past. Indian pop fiction might be banished to second-class status by critics, says Bhagat, "but it's not that to the people who read it." For them, it tells the stories of their own lives, and looks ahead to India...
...Should New Zealanders decide to discard their 58-year-old Prime Minister, they will do so largely without relish. Aiming to gauge the nation's mood by traveling the country to speak to men and women from all walks of life, TIME found that while many are fed up with her government, nearly all concede a grudging respect for Clark. "She hasn't dropped a pass," says Stuart Wright, a sheep and potato farmer in Sheffield, west of Christchurch. Like Wright, Ken Arthur, a winegrower in Blenheim at the top of the South Island, wants Labour ousted. But he respects...
...face for politics and the wholesome look that gets the middle of the country fired up. The fact that she’s a woman, seen as a draw for disgruntled Hillary supporters and conservative women alike, certainly played a role in her selection, too.Palin even speaks in sound bites. As Peggy Noonan wrote in The Wall Street Journal, “She does not speak seriously but attempts to excite sensation.” As her interviews with Charles Gibson and Katie Couric have shown, when pressed beyond the clever quip she is at a loss for words...
...prominent opposition figure who said he fled to London after receiving death threats from elements within Gayoom's government. "Now we were able to expose the regime for the crimes it had committed." International pressure and defections from his own cadres slowly forced Gayoom to change tack and speak of democratic reform. Ibrahim Hussein Zaki served for ten years as a minister in Gayoom's cabinet, but quit to help found the rebel Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) in November 2003 alongside Nasheed. "I realized that change could never come from within. This was a family regime, not the people...