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...case with Walk the Line, even though it means to trace the growing love story that snuck up on him and June Carter, princess of the singing Carter Family. Carter was Cash's polar opposite: sun to his shadow, a pixie to his wraith, as chatty as he was withdrawn, a natural comic at home in the limelight - whereas he seemed to have been dragged on stage to testify to the crimes and heartbreaks in his songs. (As she well knew, having co-written ?Ring of Fire? for Cash.) Reese Witherspoon captures Carter's raised-in-showbiz canniness, and with...
...departure of Harriet Miers-the first Supreme Court nomination to be withdrawn under duress (John Roberts withdrew from consideration as Associate Justice so he could be nominated to replace William Rehnquist as Chief Justice) since Judge Douglas Ginsburg was dropped over marijuana use in 1987-is a huge embarrassment to a White House that prides itself on its political savvy and keeping its base happy. Conservatives who had long pushed for a judge whose views matched their own were furious when Bush thanked them by presenting a nominee whose positions were unknown to say the least and whose qualifications...
...negotiators to remain steely in the Hebron talks. The result was that the Palestinians won a number of concessions. Most significant, the Israelis gave up their insistence on obtaining an explicit right, in the event of a security emergency, to re-enter areas in Hebron from which they had withdrawn. Instead, they settled for a vaguer formulation allowing each side to argue its interpretation. The Israeli compromises, U.S. officials say, should have enabled the deal to be clinched weeks ago. Says a senior State Department official: "We increased the pressure from our side for an agreement to be reached...
Because of these drawbacks, the website is sorely in need of a redesign and a redefinition. The UC’s budget this year originally attempted to address this concern by earmarking $15,000 for website redevelopment. This extremely large set-aside, later withdrawn, demonstrates two things. First, the UC is clearly serious about revamping its website. And, second, the council likely has an inflated vision of what its constituency actually needs from the website...
...last Thursday, Reuters issued an embarrassing correction, titled: “The story headlined ‘J.K. Rowling rival labels Harry Potter “gay” is wrong and is withdrawn.” Turns out that Taylor had been kicked out of a school after giving a talk to 12 year-olds, but he was punished for using vulgar words such as “crap, poo, fart and bogey...