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...years after the fact, she earned pop-cultural icon status. There are a dozen books about her, and a half-dozen movies, including the 2006 biopic, The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol. Not to mention a bunch of tribute songs, countless websites and, almost always, more than a thousand products for sale on eBay. For just $6.99 you could get a Bettie Page 'Don't Tread on Me' Metal Candle Tin & Candle, which "features an image of Bettie Page in red lingerie and licking a whip." And who'll bid $19.99 for the Bettie Page Retro Cincher Corset...
...creating a lack of supplies, the disease outbreak has incited violence in the streets. Last week, the government arrested several prominent Zimbabwean human rights activists after they helped carry out protests against Zimbabwe’s worsening economic and health crises. The death toll is edging toward a thousand people, and tens of thousands more have fallen ill. Zimbabwe has declared the events a national emergency. Fortunately, the Zimbabwean government has been open to aid from Western organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO), which has maintained a team in the region for several years, has been allowed to step...
...Black Republican,” but Nas has always described himself as a black militant. His optimism inspired him to predict an Obama win months in advance; his claim that the Treasury “gotta put [Mr. Obama’s] face on the five-thousand dollar bill,” however, may prove to be less prescient. —Jake G. Cohen is an outgoing Arts Chair. His thesis is actually about France; it’s pretty boring...
...notion that it would take several hundred thousand American troops just seems outlandish."- Former Deputy Secretary of Defense, Paul Wolfowitz, on Shinsaki's estimate...
...Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers are probably, you know, a figure that would be required. We are talking about post hostilities control over a piece of geography that's fairly significant, with the kinds of ethnic tensions that could lead to other problems. And so it takes a significant ground-force presence."- Shinseki's testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Feb 25th 2003 on his troop level estimates in Iraq...