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...congressional Republicans have worked so hard to put anti-abortion judges on the bench and passed restrictions on late-term abortions, and state legislatures have passed laws requiring parental notification for abortion. Those moves have excited the GOP base, but haven't caused much of a negative reaction from swing voters, because they haven't threatened the majority position on abortion...
...country's main artery remains the snaking Congo River, which is full of treacherous sandbars and shifting currents. The country "hasn't had a census since 1984. There are no ID cards in memory. We will need at least 40,000 to 50,000 polling stations," says William Lacy Swing, veteran U.S. ambassador in Africa and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission to Congo. He says the poll will cost $422 million. "Elections should be a time of national unity and reconciliation. But if it is not handled correctly, it can be a moment of great division...
...away from this." Jeans avers that guests often feel "a little low on the third day. I tell them the pain will be forgotten by Saturday when they will look fabulous and feel full of energy. It's tough love, really." As it happens, I'm getting into the swing after shaking off a caffeine-withdrawal headache. Only one person in the retreat's four-year history has ever quit. And the yoga is wonderful, a dynamic mix of ashtanga and hatha techniques, taught with exquisite clarity by the retreat's regular instructor, Wendy Wardell...
Airness is imbued with the irresistible cool derived from celebrities the French love most: soccer stars. But how could he swing that when all the pros worth recruiting were already under contract to Nike, Adidas and Puma? "I came up with the concept of the extra sports contract"--getting players to wear Airness in their private life, once their on-field obligations were over." French-African roots were key to signing stars like Didier Drogba, an Ivorian who plays for the top English team, Chelsea. Those ties also allowed Koné to go to the next level, signing Airness...
...Broadway songs don't swing votes. Ira Gershwin discovered that when he rewrote his "Love Is Sweeping the Country" lyrics for Adlai Stevenson's noble but doomed 1952 campaign against Dwight D. Eisenhower. (A sample, from Kimball's The Complete Lyrics of Ira Gershwin: "What a man for our future! / Equal him if you can. / Fearless attitudes / With no platitudes; / Inspirational - / He's sensational! / Adlai's sweeping the country! / America - here's your man!") But they can buoy spirits. Mel Brooks knows that, as do the Drowsy Chaperone team. All the 21st century fashioners of musical comedy are marching...