Word: tides
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...comic timing helps her draw the biggest laughs. It doesn't hurt that Anderson, 42, who has publicly referred to her surgically enhanced breasts as "Pancho and Lefty," embraces her own absurdity. "I'm here to serve you - and run provocatively to you on the beach when the tide comes in," she says, referencing her most famous role of C.J. Parker in Baywatch. Later, during a group dance number, she bounces in one spot for three minutes, flexing her bottom to the beat. Her bosom undulates so much that you worry she'll wind up with two black eyes...
...Even if this is the case, Browder stresses that a harsher response from the government is needed to stem the tide of raiding in Russia, namely criminal prosecution. "There is no comparison between the loss of a job and the loss of an innocent man's life," he says...
Sheila Murphy Cockrel, a member of the Detroit city council, has never been afraid to swim against the tide. She opposed proposals to create "Africa Town," a district exclusively for black-owned businesses in the heart of downtown. She regularly sparred with the city's former mayor, Kwame Kilpatrick, who resigned in 2008 amid enormous legal problems. Just last month, she drew headlines for abruptly leaving the council's chambers to protest a rushed measure, backed by Christian conservatives, to restrict alcohol sales at Detroit's strip clubs. "It was an act of democracy to walk...
...world's toughest region, Ambassador Karl Eikenberry deserves a Teddy for the sheer courage he showed in going out among the Afghan people - and for standing against the prevailing tide, advising the President against sending more troops until the Afghan government cleaned up its act. General Stanley McChrystal deserves a Teddy as well, for seeing clearly the problems with the Afghan mission, reporting his misgivings honestly and then working with a new President to create a new campaign plan that, we must hope, will turn the tide...
...Makere University, one voice seemed to try to stem the anti-gay tide. Said Sylvia Tamale, dean of law: "Today it is homosexuals under attack. Tomorrow it will be another minority." In the meantime, the country's gay community cowers. "In Uganda people take us to be sinners," says Grace, the leader of a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender youth group, who preferred not to give her surname. "They consider us as a destroyed person. Most of [our members] say, 'I don't know what I am doing in this world. Everybody hates me.' We have to keep on consoling...