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...Girls (WB, 8 p.m.) Let's be honest. You are not going to watch this show. You will be watching "Friends" instead. But here is what you will be missing: the teen-heavy WB network growing up (ever so slightly) with a gently funny, unsentimental comedy-drama about the tug-of-war between a 32-year-old mother and her 16-year-old daughter. Lauren Graham ("M.Y.O.B.") is charming and comic as a single mom, with parent issues of her own, trying to hold her life together while managing a New England inn full of slightly loopy characters. (Between this...
...delivery. "Most women these days just aren't willing," he said wistfully. Usually, I'm reluctant to admit my decision, as people tend to exclaim "how interesting!" with faux cheer for my medieval birthing plans. My friends cannot resist trying to convince me to get sliced open. They cheerfully tug up their shirts, and flash me their discreet little scars, always pointing out how they fall under the bikini line...
...Team Kiko and Team Masako. It is an unusual development. The imperial family, the oldest royal line in the world, is also the most tightly controlled. Its members aren't allowed to have last names, personal wealth, opinions or, for the most part, lives. But the behind-the-scenes tug-of-war over the future of the dynasty has made the royals unexpectedly human--and made Masako and Kiko living symbols of the intense pressure on Japanese women to be both modern and traditional...
...having a great time,” he said. “Everything seemed to go really, really smoothly.” The smooth-running week even overcame some intervention from Mother Nature. Rain on the morning of the Senior Olympics, a battle of houses in events such as tug-of-war and dodgeball, could have put a damper on the festivities, but according to Adams, the Class of ’06 would not succumb to the weather. “I heard people say they almost enjoyed it more with the rain,” she said...
...clear. "Nobody is protected from having in their possession a classified document," says Persichini. When asked if the Anderson family could be criminally prosecuted for possession of the files they inherited, Persichini replied, "At this point, we haven't gone down that route." The Anderson family is relishing the tug-of-war with the powerful agency. "It almost seems like the good old days," Kevin Anderson says. "I wish Dad were around to enjoy...