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...television show will have a message, but without getting into the tanks, the guns, the killing and the blood." HAZIM SHARAWI, host of a new children's television show for Al Aksa TV, Hamas' television station in the Gaza Strip, which aims to teach children about Palestinian politics...
...into the interior of the Amazon jungle, only that jungle is all around us every day. Ned took her places most women don't go, or can't, or wouldn't if you paid them. She joined an all-male bowling league. She ordered lap dances at strip clubs. She went on an Iron John--style men's retreat. She even spent three weeks in a Catholic monastery, in which she found that the ancient question "Ginger or Mary Ann?" was still being debated...
...their roles in helping steer business (i.e., prisoners) to the firm. In San Diego local government has been effectively frozen--and a city-council member has been convicted (although he remains free on appeal)--as a result of a scandal in which local officials accepted cash bribes from a strip-club owner in exchange for promises to try to change a city law to allow hands-on lap dances...
...dialogue is time-filling conversation you might hear anywhere (but in a Hollywood movie). The film doesn't judge or prod its characters, just watches the long fuse of the plot dwindle, then explode. The "actors" bring an authenticity to this strip-mall, strip-mined area. Ashley is a student, Wilkins a beauty-salon stylist, and Doebereiner the manager of the Parkersburg, W.Va., Kentucky Fried Chicken. All are good, but Doebereiner's a real find. With eyes as blue as those her Martha presses into plastic doll faces, she brings a fresh look to a decent person who's addicted...
...come up empty. Not so in today's world. Take Pat Robertson, Christian Right pioneer and host of the 700 Club. Last week, within a day of Sharon's massive stroke, the televangelist asserted that it had been God's punishment for leader's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip: "Here he's at the point of death. He was dividing God's land," said Robertson. "For any prime minister of Israel who decides he's going to carve it up and give it away, God says, 'No, this is mine.'" Robertson went on to cite a Biblical prophet, Joel...