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...time to do something for fun. I feel like I've got to be productive. I can't live the rest of my life like this, but for now I have to justify any pleasurable time that I have. But I do have dreams." Those dreams will have to wait, because selling Up! will keep her performing on the road for a few years and thrust her right back into the swirl of another dream: being the world's biggest pop singer. Just whose dream that is, only Shania Twain knows for sure...
...refugee and former Muslim who's a sure bet to become an M.P. for the liberal VVD party in January's elections. "Millions of Muslim women all over the world are oppressed in the name of Islam," she says from VVD party headquarters in the Hague, as her bodyguards wait outside. The bodyguards are needed because Hirsi Ali has been threatened by Islamic fundamentalists ever since she first openly criticized Islam on a local TV station in March. After death threats in October, she went into hiding in the U.S., returning two weeks...
...doesn't look like a troublemaker. With his corduroy jacket, woolly pullover and roughly trimmed beard, he seems more the mild-mannered, professorial sort than a travel writer famous for his savage wit. This is, after all, the man who dismissed Australia's capital with the epithet "Canberra? Why Wait for Death?" Of Bradford, England, he opined that its sole purpose is "making every place else look better by comparison." And he doesn't hesitate to skewer his fellow Americans. Bryson's first book, a 1989 exploration of small-town U.S.A. called The Lost Continent, included the following comment about...
...wait up this weekend for the Bush administration to respond to Iraq's much anticipated weapons declaration. Washington won't even get to see the document delivered on Saturday, and comprising more than 11,000 pages, until next week. The Security Council decided on Friday to delay distribution of the document to Security Council members until UN inspectors have analyzed its contents and determined whether any portions need to remain classified, in order to avoid making information public that could help others manufacture weapons of mass destruction. The Security Council will be briefed on the declaration by UNMOVIC chief Hans...
...expectations of a rush to military action. They emphasized instead that the Iraqi declaration is the start of a process that Washington believes will, eventually, make an incontrovertible case for war. And debates continue among President Bush's security advisers, along familiar lines, over just how to long to wait for the UN process to make that case...