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...show sends up the usual Tinseltown types, but Kightlinger thoroughly rounds out Jackie, giving her the kind of drawling feminist sarcasm rarely seen since Roseanne left sitcomdom. Cynical yet principled, bitter but still ambitious, Jackie wants to conquer Hollywood yet not be of it. (She refuses, for instance, to drive.) She's the kind of tough, tart 21st century broad you would expect to idolize a '30s Derby queen: she's armed with a Billy Wilder wit and unafraid to throw elbows. And it's refreshing to see a sitcom about a woman past her 20s who is obsessed with...
...only getting better. If the secret of Kim Edwards wasn't out before, it certainly is now. In fact, secrets are a bit of a theme with Edwards - is there something she needs to get off her chest? "Nothing of this magnitude," she says with a laugh. "Just the usual kinds of secrets one keeps...
...international community wants an immediate cease-fire, it is powerless to effect one without the support of the U.S. - the only player capable of persuading Israel to call off its assault. Still, the way the military situation is evolving may actually give the Arabs and Europeans greater than usual leverage in shaping the outcome of this crisis...
...campaigns here have the usual dynamics of the national races, with the Republicans calling the Democrats "liberal" (as in "liberal lobbyist Lois Murphy") and Democrats attacking Republicans for voting with George Bush on every issue, particularly focusing on stem-cell research last week. Two of the Democratic candidates are military veterans, Patrick Murphy and Joe Sestak, so they are doing their best to use their military credentials to counter any assumptions that their party is weak on national security...
...year-old son. All three had been injured in Israeli artillery shelling around Tibnine and their condition was sufficiently serious to dispatch them to hospital in Tyre. It took Shaalan about 15 minutes to reach Qana, having steered his ambulance around the numerous bomb craters in the road. As usual, the ambulance's lights were on full-beam, the internal light also was on, the revolving blue light was flashing on the roof and the Red Cross flag was lit up. Shaalan wanted everyone to know he was there...