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...former Prime Minister, the other is a grandson of another former Prime Minister. The man they would replace, who announced his resignation on Sept. 12 after less than a year in power, is yet another former Premier's grandson. And the top man before that? Yup, another scion of a political dynasty...
...Natalie Portman - Best Actress? Yup. For once she's not playing a waif or a child princess but a mature, full-bodied woman, probably a decade older than Portman is (25). She looks great, in a blond rinse and come-hither outfits, but she's not coasting on her looks; they are only accoutrements to Leslie's natural salesmanship. She uses her appeal to simultaneously flirt with and taunt the gambler across the table. And when the cards turn against her, Leslie is quick to hit on Elizabeth, who has naively mentioned a $2200 stash of her own. Thus begins...
...adds an innovation: the same hybrid motor used by SpaceShipOne to win the X Prize in 2004--laughing gas shot through rubber. In comparison, the spaceship being developed in great secrecy by Bezos' Blue Origin looks like a lopped-off nose cone. The three-seater, fueled by hydrogen peroxide (yup, the common household disinfectant, though in a highly purified form, with a touch of kerosene) appears based on an old Delta Clipper design done for NASA. Musk's SpaceX designers favor the NASA look too--of old Apollo capsules--but that translates into ocean splashdowns...
...Service agent came to the rescue. The candidates aren't just downtown, they're in our neighborhoods, eating at our local diner, knocking on our doors, driving by in motorcades of dark-tinted jeeps. "Any calls?" my husband asked me one fairly typical day before the caucuses in 2004. "Yup," I replied. "The Little League coach and John Kerry inviting you to a 'little barbeque...
...pretty pieces of our colorful puzzle keep more or less to themselves. The Democrats have their group, and the Republicans have theirs; the football players and the ballet dancers inhabit separate spheres; there’s one organization for the Chinese students and another for the Irish. Yup, we’re all here, but with all of the separation, it isn’t too often that one gets to see our seemingly picture perfect diversity live and in action. That is, until you step into a classroom...