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...takes the more accessible parts of their agendas and adopts them. Hillary Clinton inspired an even greater frenzy because she was a gender revolutionary, transforming the cotton-candy role of First Lady into a power position. She wasn't nearly as charming as her husband either. And she seemed ... tougher...
...tough season continued to get tougher this weekend as the women’s volleyball team dropped two more matches to top Ivy League opponents. The Crimson fell, 3-1 (25-30, 32-30, 30-20, 30-19), to Penn on Friday and 3-1 (30-19, 30-19, 27-30, 30-15) to Princeton on Saturday in a pair of road contests.The Crimson (7-17) is now 2-10 in the Ivy League and seventh in the standings. Princeton sits atop the league with a perfect 11-0 conference record, and Penn is close behind, in second place...
...Nowadays it's much tougher to keep a lid on a juicy story as these events testify. Razi Mireskandari, a partner at the law firm Simons Muirhead & Burton and a specialist in media law, says he can imagine a scenario in which a gag order might become untenable because websites, wherever they are based, "are becoming freely accessible by nearly everybody. There could be an issue of trying to put your thumb in the dam, but it hasn't quite got to that stage yet." In the case of the anonymous royal embroiled in the alleged blackmail plot...
...tougher tone suggests that U.S. policy has taken a subtle, yet decisive, turn toward not merely stopping Iran's nuclear program, but seeking the end of the Islamic regime. Cheney's objections to Iran went well beyond its uranium-enrichment activities, to include Iran's policies toward Israel and the U.S., its activities in Iraq, its suppression of domestic opposition and what he called its drive for "hegemonic power" in the region - a term echoed by the less hawkish Rice in her congressional testimony...
...That was the 1953 From Here to Eternity. As it rescued Frank Sinatra's career from the B-movie commode, the film also showed that Kerr could play something tougher than a lady: a woman. As the company commander's wife in Pearl Harbor just before the war, she's a siren this time, a notorious lay on Army barracks from New Jersey to Hawaii. "Her and them sweaters!" one soldier says as she walks toward him. In curly blond hair and a halter dress like the one Monroe wore two years later in The Seven Year Itch, Kerr lasers...