Les médias russes rapportaient lundi parfois avec gourmandise comment un Vladimir Poutine en treillis militaire s'y est pris pour neutraliser une tigresse devenue menaçante pour des journalistes en reportage dans un parc animalier de l'Extrême-Orient russe.
De moins en moins d'adolescents canadiens seraient actifs sexuellement, et le recul serait encore plus marqué chez les jeunes femmes que chez les jeunes hommes, révèle une nouvelle étude.
En 2005, 43 pour cent des adolescents âgés entre 15 et 19 ans ont déclaré avoir eu des relations sexuelles au moins une fois, en baisse par rapport à 47 pour cent en 1996-1997, selon Statistique Canada.
We can’t drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times…and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That’s not leadership. That’s not going to happen.
Des enfants, ils en meurent de chaque côté des murs, il y a seulement la différence de l’arme pour les abattre.
This week, Kuntar, dressed in fatigues and sporting a Hitlerian mustache and haircut, walked down a red carpet arrayed for him in Beirut. The government closed all offices and declared a national day of celebration. Tens of thousands of Lebanese cheered, waved flags, threw confetti, and set off fireworks as Hezbollah staged a rally to celebrate their "victory" over Israel. Mahmoud Abbas,he "moderate" leader of the Palestinian Authority, sent "blessings to Samir Kuntar's family." PA spokesman Ahmad Abdul Rahman sent "warm blessings to Hezbollah ... on the return of the heroes of freedom ... headed by the great Samir Kuntar."
In 1979, as a 16-year-old, he and four others had traveled to northern Israel by boat from Lebanon and come ashore in the seaside town of Nahariya. At midnight, Smadar Haran recalled, they burst into her apartment building. Peering out to see what the noise was, Smadar, mother of two, slammed shut her apartment door when she saw the terrorists -- but too late. Kuntar had glimpsed her. Her husband, Danny, helped Smadar and their younger daughter, 2-year-old Yael, to squeeze into a crawl space above the bedroom.(...)As police began to arrive, Kuntar and the others dragged Danny and 4-year-old Einat down to the beach. With Einat watching, Kuntar shot Danny in the head and then threw his body into the surf. Kuntar then repeatedly smashed Einat's head against a rock with his rifle butt, killing her, too.
Au Liban, même si l’on considère qu’il est encore tôt de parler d’avenir politique tant que Kantar n’est pas rentré au pays, nombreux sont ceux qui le voient déjà en parlementaire ou en figure de proue de l’opposition.(...)Selon Sayyed Franjieh, analyste politique à Beyrouth, "il ne serait pas étonnant de retrouver Kantar, en tant que candidat druze, sur la liste de l’opposition dans la circonscription de Baabda". Cette circonscription du Mont-Liban compte, en effet, un important électorat chiite pro-Hezbollah ainsi que de nombreux chrétiens partisans du général Aoun, tous deux piliers de l’opposition.
“She's (Kathleen Sebelius) a bit older than Obama, but not old enough to be maternal. And she is quite attractive. They'd look too much like a couple together. [Putting her on the ticket] would risk evoking on a subconscious level every American trope about miscegenation — a recurrent, threatening theme throughout our cultural and political history. Every time they smile at each other, it will be triggered … And that's exactly the kind of anxiety you do not want to raise in white working-class men — the fear that this handsome, charismatic black guy is after their women.”
David Davis, a right-winger and one of the Tories' political heavyweights, stunned Westminster by announcing he was quitting as both an MP and Shadow Home Secretary to fight against the Government's "strangulation" of British freedoms. Mr Davis, who lost the 2005 Tory leadership contest to David Cameron, has been the driving force behind Tory opposition to Gordon Brown's plans to extend detention without charge for terrorist suspects from 28 to 42 days.
“I won’t forget these people,” said Susie Tompkins Buell.(...) When asked to name “these people,” Ms. Buell specifies “all the women who sold out Hillary.” She declined to volunteer names on her list but answered “all of the above” when read a roster of prominent women supporting Mr. Obama that includes Senator Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Gov. Janet Napolitano of Arizona and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas.
Before Dorothy came along, the manager said, Bob was really kind of a player and had all the women vying to sit with him on the porch. But with Dorothy, she said, "it was love." One day, the staff noticed that they were sitting together, then before long they were taking all their meals together, and over a matter of weeks, it became constant. Whenever Bob caught sight of Dorothy, he lit up "like a young stud seeing his lady for the first time." Even at 95, he'd pop out of his chair and straighten his clothes when she walked into the room. She would sit, and then he would sit. And both of them began taking far greater pride in their appearance; Dorothy went from wearing the same ratty yellow dress all the time to appearing for breakfast every morning in a different outfit, accessorized with pearls and hair combs.
Soon the relationship became sexual. At first, Dorothy's daughter and the facility manager doubted Dorothy's vivid accounts of having intercourse with Bob. But aides noticed that Bob became visibly aroused when he kissed Dorothy good night—and saw that he didn't want to leave her at her door anymore, either. (...) His overnight nurse was an obstacle to sleepovers, but the couple started spending time alone in their apartments during the day. When Bob's son became aware of these trysts, he tried to put a stop to them—in the manager's view because the son felt that old people "should be old and rock in the chair."
«Depuis que les barbares ont été élus - je les appelais déjà ainsi lorsque j'ai été élu maire -, ils ont commencé à tergiverser sur l'avenir du centre, explique-t-il. Ils savaient que la clinique était très bien vue à Vancouver. Ils ont tenté de trouver une bonne raison pour la fermer. Ils n'ont jamais rien trouvé. Tout ce qu'ils trouvaient était anecdotique ou n'avait pas été confirmé scientifiquement. En fait, les conservateurs ignorent tout simplement et volontairement les données scientifiques. Ils le font aussi en environnement, en économie. Ces gens n'ont pas d'idées. Ils sont complètement motivés par leur idéologie. Ils sont un désastre, un désastre total!»
Le projet de loi accorde à la ministre de la Citoyenneté et de l'Immigration un pouvoir discrétionnaire pour refuser une demande d'immigration, et ce, même si le demandeur répond à tous les critères de sélection. La ministre pourra également intervenir pour fixer des limites sur la catégorie et le pays d'origine des immigrants potentiels, sans aucune autre forme de balises.
The referendum was initiated by the Swiss People’s Party, a right-wing group that is the most powerful party in the federal Parliament.Known as SVP, the party made international headlines before last year’s general election with a campaign that many called racist. A poster on billboards across the country summed up the party’s stance on immigrants: It showed white sheep standing on the Swiss flag and kicking away a black sheep.
Meanwhile, the party has collected enough signatures for other anti-foreigner referendums. One would allow Switzerland to expel entire families if one member commits a crime. Another, in a country in which foreigners make up many of the small Muslim minority, calls for a ban on the building of minarets.
It's probably the most thinking Geideman ever did compiling a checklist, save for the 1992 Upper Deck set when he assigned numbers that ended in 69 to players with porn-star-sounding names. (Dick Schofield at No. 269, Heathcliff Slocumb at No. 569, and Dickie Thon at No. 769.)
In Politico-Yahoo News interview, Bush laments flawed pre-war intelligence and says he gave up golf to show solidarity with soldiers.
D'ailleurs, la nature du prochain Manège ne fait pas l'unanimité, puisque les possibilités sont nombreuses: maintenir les façades, tout démolir, tout recouvrir, même l'idée d'y mettre un stationnement a été lancée par des citoyens
She scoffs at the idea of voting for Obama: "I don't want to be a Muslim!" She looks dubious when told Obama is Christian. "Then why did he go see what's-his-name over in Iraq, that Lama?"
Moi, j'en ai fait quatre, mais l'idéal c'est d'en faire au moins deux. (...) Alors si on peut mettre un focus là-dessus
If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept.
Every time that campaign is upset about something, they call it racist. I will not be discriminated against because I’m white.
"Finally they hit upon an idea. Why not simply marry them off? In other words, why not find a way to give these men—the most dedicated, competent, and implacable fighters in the entire PLO—a reason to live rather than to die? Having failed to come up with any viable alternatives, the two men put their plan in motion.
They traveled to Palestinian refugee camps, to PLO offices and associated organizations, and to the capitals of all Middle Eastern countries with large Palestinian communities. Systematically identifying the most attractive young Palestinian women they could find, they put before these women what they hoped would be an irresistible proposition: Your fatherland needs you. Will you accept a critical mission of the utmost importance to the Palestinian people? Will you come to Beirut, for a reason to be disclosed upon your arrival, but one decreed by no higher authority than Chairman Arafat himself? How could a true patriot refuse?
So approximately a hundred of these beautiful young women were brought to Beirut. There, in a sort of PLO version of a college mixer, boy met girl, boy fell in love with girl, boy would, it was hoped, marry girl. There was an additional incentive, designed to facilitate not just amorous connections but long-lasting relationships. The hundred or so Black Septemberists were told that if they married these women, they would be paid $3,000; given an apartment in Beirut with a gas stove, a refrigerator, and a television; and employed by the PLO in some nonviolent capacity. Any of these couples that had a baby within a year would be rewarded with an additional $5,000.
Both Abu Iyad and the future general worried that their scheme would never work. But, as the general recounted, without exception the Black Septemberists fell in love, got married, settled down, and in most cases started a family. To make sure that none ever strayed, the two men devised a test. Periodically, the former terrorists would be handed legitimate passports and asked to go to the organization's offices in Geneva or Paris or some other city on genuine nonviolent PLO business. But, the general explained, not one of them would agree to travel abroad, for fear of being arrested and losing all that they had—that is, being deprived of their wives and children. "And so," my host told me, "that is how we shut down Black September and eliminated terrorism. It is the only successful case that I know of."
He went on to call for a decade-long investment in a $150 billion plan to create five million so-called “green-collar” jobs to develop energy sources that are friendly to the environment
Examples of their (NDLR : McCain et Clinton) mutual respect typically include a tale of holding a vodka-drinking contest in Estonia. Such a celebration may have been unlikely to happen with Mr. Obama, who on a trip to Russia in 2005 asked that his shot glass be filled with water.
Which brings me to my tyrannical fantasy. I want to take a journey 68 million years back in time to see a Tyrannosaurus rex couple mating. What was it like? Did they trumpet and bellow and stamp their feet? Did they thrash their enormous tails? Did he bite her neck in rapture and exude a musky scent? Somehow, I imagine that when two T. rex got it on, the earth shook for miles around.
And if I could only take this journey, I could answer a question that sometimes bothers me. Did T. rex have a penis? Did he even, as lizards do, have two?
Si libéraux et conservateurs ont déjà dit qu'il ne faudrait pas qu'une élection soit déclenchée par la question afghane, le député Coderre va plus loin en affirmant qu'il ne devrait pas y avoir un «vide parlementaire», c'est à dire une campagne électorale, tant que les soldats canadiens risquent leur vie en Afghanistan.
D’autres entreprises ont entrepris de bannir les sacs de plastique, mais elles se trouvent surtout en Europe. Ici, des municipalités comme Huntingdon et San Francisco les ont interdits.
There is no reason to fear that Hezbollah might take control of Lebanon, since it's already the most powerful political and military force in the country. It's akin to worrying that a victory by Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama might lead to white people taking control of the United States. It wouldn't make a damn bit of difference.
I can remember sitting with Bill Bradley in his bare campaign office just after his withdrawal speech in 2000. Everyone was already gone except for a few loyal staff members and the last two Secret Service agents guarding the door. All the noise from all the rallies had subsided, and all that remained were a few empty cubicles and the occasional unanswered phone. I will never forget how one of the agents, checking his watch, offered the candidate a ride home before the final shift came to an end.
It’s not just the candidate, though, who suffers the trauma. For all the people who work on a campaign, who share cramped apartments with other true believers and keep most of their belongings in a car, the end really does feel like The End. I stood in the Ohio headquarters of America Coming Together, the massive Democratic voter turnout operation, as John Kerry and John Edwards gave their concession speech the day after the 2004 election. A smart young organizer was weeping on her boss’s shoulder. I knew that if she lived to be 90, no matter what else she did or how successfully, the memory of that moment would probably still feel like a kick in the gut.
It is one thing to broadcast subversive messages on Radio as was the case in Rwanda, and is alarmingly the case with some vernacular radio stations in Kenya.
It is an entirely different thing to send these messages to a carefully selected list of people on your contact list who will in turn send them on to their own select list of people so that the message spreads like a virus but catches only people who answer to certain ‘characteristics.’
It is more dangerous because there is more stealth to it. It is not done in the open, it is done in secret, making it harder to put an end to. In addition, the dissemination instrument is not situated in one central place that can be clamped down on easily. Rather, every mobile phone in this country is a potential dissemination instrument, making it nigh impossible to crackdown on the proliferators of these messages.
I’m very afraid that mobile phones will be for Kenya what Radio was for Rwanda. I really look forward to being proved wrong.
You see that resentment over US support for the despotic governments in Egypt, Jordan, and the Gulf is fueling anti-American terrorism and decide that the solution is to . . . keep supporting those governments and invade Iraq. After all, we support our clients for a reason so any modification to those policies would entail a cost. Iraq, by contrast, had been a regional adversary for quite some time. So why not support democracy by supporting it in Iraq? It's about on a par with worrying about gangrene developing in your right hand, but also worrying that you're right-handed and may not be able to write without it, so instead you decide to amputate the left hand and hope for the best.
Pour les autos des contremaîtres, Michel Parent a une théorie. «C'est peut-être eux qui abîment leur voiture parce qu'ils en veulent une neuve», insinue-t-il.
In August 1997, James Schillaci, a rough-hewn chauffeur from the Bronx, dialed Mayor Giuliani’s radio program on WABC-AM to complain about a red-light sting run by the police near the Bronx Zoo. When the call yielded no results, Mr. Schillaci turned to The Daily News, which then ran a photo of the red light and this front page headline: “GOTCHA!” That morning, police officers appeared on Mr. Schillaci’s doorstep. What are you going to do, Mr. Schillaci asked, arrest me? He was joking, but the officers were not. They slapped on handcuffs and took him to court on a 13-year-old traffic warrant. (...)
After AIDS activists with Housing Works loudly challenged the mayor, city officials sabotaged the group’s application for a federal housing grant. A caseworker who spoke of missteps in the death of a child was fired. After unidentified city workers complained of pressure to hand contracts to Giuliani-favored organizations, investigators examined not the charges but the identity of the leakers. (...)
At 7 p.m. on May 17, Mr. Giuliani’s press secretary dialed reporters and served up a hotter story: A former youth commissioner under Mr. Dinkins, Richard L. Murphy, had ladled millions of dollars to supporters of the former mayor. And someone had destroyed Department of Youth Services records and hard drives and stolen computers in an apparent effort to obscure what had happened to that money. (...) None of it was true. In 1995, the Department of Investigation found no politically motivated contracts and no theft by senior officials. But Mr. Murphy’s professional life was wrecked. (...)Not long after, a major foundation recruited Mr. Murphy to work on the West Coast. The group wanted him to replicate his much-honored concept of opening schools at night as community centers. A senior Giuliani official called the foundation — a move a former mayoral official confirmed on the condition of anonymity for fear of embarrassing the organization — and the prospective job disappeared.(...)
In March 2000, an undercover officer killed Patrick Dorismond, a security guard, during a fight when the police mistook him for a drug dealer. The outcry infuriated the mayor, who released Mr. Dorismond’s juvenile record, a document that legally was supposed to remain sealed.The victim, Mr. Giuliani opined, was no “altar boy.” Actually, he was.
“It’s a very long prelude, and I think it is becoming a very old story very fast,” said Robert Zimmerman, a communications specialist who is one of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fund-raisers.
I know how hard it is. It comes with little sleep, little pay, and a lot of sacrifice. There are days of disappointment, but sometimes, just sometimes, there are nights like this – a night that, years from now, when we’ve made the changes we believe in; when more families can afford to see a doctor; when our children inherit a planet that’s a little cleaner and safer; when the world sees America differently, and America sees itself as a nation less divided and more united; you’ll be able look back with pride and say that this was the moment when it all began.
