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Target and its corporate retail cousin Best Buy are continuing to suffer fallout from donations to a Minnesota group that backed a gay-marriage opponent for governor. On top of organized consumer boycotts and public pressure campaigns, some of the retail giant's investors are up in arms, according to the Associated Press. The anti-Target effort among consumer activists, meanwhile, continues to draw a strong online following, with petitions and viral videos — even though one cable network has rejected a national ad buy from liberal group MoveOn.org urging a Target boycott. MoveOn's political action committee has, however, placed a video of...

JOHN Howard believes that young Australian women have entered a post-feminist era where they have "moved on" from the need to measure their lives by success in a career. Discussing the rise in births triggered in part by the Coalition's baby-bonus scheme, the Prime Minister told The Sunday Telegraph he thought young women had a "greater awareness now of the disadvantage of postponing having children too long''. Mr Howard said they realised that if child-bearing was left too late, it produced "complications''. "Fortunately, I think today's younger women are more in the post-feminist period, where they don't sort of measure...

For all those people who drool over the babes at Fox, check out the number one reason young (and old) Frenchmen (and perhaps French lesbians) are well informed.

Posing hand on hip in a cutaway dress, Drew Barrymore has an announcement to make.She has joined the growing number of celebrities who have stopped shaving under their arms - and don't care who knows it. The 29-year- old Charlie's Angels star made her fashion statement at a New York catwalk event featuring designer Marc Jacobs. With his penchant for dressing models in combat boots and army-style jackets, Jacobs is famed for his grunge-inspired look - and Drew certainly fitted in. One of those attending the event at the Lexington Avenue Armory observed: 'She looked absolutely stunning but all people...

During the recent presidential campaign, Sen. John Kerry assailed President Bush for alienating key U.S. allies, evidence he maintained of the incumbent's lack of foreign policy acumen and an arena in which the challenger insisted he could "do better." Implicit in this critique was the belief that such allies — notably, the French — were anxious to be our friends, if they were not mistreated by America's leader. In fact, it is increasingly clear the French government under President Jacques Chirac is bent on policies antithetical to U.S. interests. They are not simply anti-Bush, they are anti-American and anti-Atlaniticist. The...

Singer Paula Cole, another idiot from the world of Entertainment/Hollywood has a new song...and look how clever little Paula is...my God, the narcissism and self-indulgence, the cliches, it's so cloying you could gag... Yea, Yea Yea, Yea, Yea Well hello there, blue blood boy Your bed is lined with dollars I bet you're cumming oil I love the way you take control and push the world around United Nations- Ha,ha No one can keep you down Daddy's little helper, silver foot in your mouth Policeman of the world gonna start another war Connecticut yankee in a cowboy hat You're my...

*********URGENT FROM THE AP*********** PARIS –– British Prime Minister Tony Blair fails to persuade France to join coalition ready to take quick action against Iraq.

<p>February 10, 2003 -- COLLEVILLE-SUR-MER, France - They stand only 3 feet high, but they're towering mountains of sacrifice. I'm standing in the American Cemetery. Gray clouds hang low as if in mourning for the nearly 10,000 young Americans buried beneath crosses and Stars of David that stretch as far as the eye can see.</p>

Point Reyes Light - January 2, 2003Nude women protest war again; men also demonstrate By Ivan Gale Seeking to "reinvigorate the buzz across the country" from its first photo of women spelling "Peace" with their naked bodies, organizer Donna Sheehan and her group, Unreasonable Women Baring Witness, staged a second, much larger nude peace protest and photo shoot near Point Reyes Station on Sunday. The sandy shore of Drake’s Beach, rather than a rain-sogged Love Field in Point Reyes Station, was the venue for some 94 women along with more than two dozen men who created two new and...