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...stages. The first time I tried to get it all chopped off, the hairdresser told me she’d still keep me looking “feminine.” Before she started with the scissors, my thick hair was down to the middle of my back. I swear I could hear a soft thud as the stylist’s sharp scissors gently sliced off one lock at a time. As I watched the pile of hair on the floor continue to grow, I was seized with a temporary paranoia that mirrors would start to crack when...
Watching TV is like dating. Do it long enough and you hook up with people you could swear you have already encountered, somewhere in your hazy, regret-filled past. So it is with Coupling (Thursdays, 9:30 p.m. E.T.), an NBC Must-See-TV-night sitcom about six urban singles, of a certain well-heeled Pottery Barnitude, who drop double entendres and have slept with one another in various combinations. Nice to meet you, Ross--I mean Steve...
...abandon its nuclear program and submit to a tough inspection and verification regime. At the same time all four countries expect Washington to assuage North Korean concerns, particularly through offering Pyongyang security guarantees - in other words, to get a deal on nuclear weapons, the Bush Administration will have to swear an oath to refrain from pursuing the overthrow of the regime of Kim Jong Il. But guaranteeing the security of a charter member of President Bush's "Axis of Evil" sticks in the craw of many in the Administration...
...Wavering Peace DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO New doubts were cast on the peace process when rebel ministers in the new power-sharing administration refused to swear an oath of loyalty to President Joseph Kabila at a ceremony in Kinshasa, and fresh fighting broke out in the eastern Ituri region. Earlier, the leaders of two main rebel groups were sworn in as Vice Presidents, raising hopes that the transitional government, set up under a peace deal agreed in April, might bring a permanent end to the five-year civil war. However, on Friday the rebels said they would recognize Kabila only...
...need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last week--the need for clearly defined missions and exit strategies, the desperate attempt to swear that, honest, only a couple of hundred American soldiers would ever go to West Africa--were so reminiscent of the mid-1990s that at any minute I expected someone to do the Macarena. A U.S. intervention in Liberia, let us be clear, would be for purely humanitarian, Albrightish motives. Notwithstanding the role...