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...Dwarfs. Even the "parenting advice" section of Disney's Princesses website entreats mom and dad to "Cuddle up with your little princess and her favorite Disney Princess doll ... as you read her her favorite story." Nowhere does it say what to do if your little princess is throwing a temper tantrum cause you won't buy her a "Melody" doll, Ariel's daughter from The Little Mermaid II. In June, Princess-weary parents got a piece of good news - Disney said it will stop making the direct-to-DVD sequels, a move that reflects the influence of Disney's largest...
...dressed them up in power suits or heels. Patty Hewes, for instance, bears the marks of becoming a successful, feared litigator in a man's profession; she doesn't rely on no-you're-out-of-order outbursts but uses charm, wit and sly threats. "I have a temper too," Patty tells her young female protégé. "But I have learned when to use it." Of course, she has--and a male litigator would very likely never have had to. "It's more problematic for a woman," says Close. "There's no word for balls, for women. But you have...
...indifferent to the slaughter in Chechnya, and after 9/11 it even tacitly accepted Putin's claim that in crushing the Chechens, he was serving as a volunteer in Bush's global "war on terror." The killing of journalist Politkovskaya and Putin's dismissal of its import similarly failed to temper the affectations of personal camaraderie between the leaders in the White House and the Kremlin. For that matter, neither has the general antidemocratic regression in Russia's political life...
...about Romney's positioning himself against it. (You can hear the exchange here.) Further, says McCain spokesman Brian Jones, "tonally, it was similar to 'bomb Iran'" - pointedly, a McCain gibe that received similarly mixed reviews - "He made a joke and moved on to something substantive. It was not a temper tantrum; it was not a gaffe. He delivered a line...
...square—in the recent New York Times article, “Matters of Faith Find a New Prominence on Campus.†Although in light of the proposed, anti-bullying legislation being debated in the Massachusetts State House, perhaps it is wise that I learn to temper my acid tongue...