| Bush congratulates Georgian president on vote win
Saakashvili, a U.S. ally, won the January 5 presidential election in his small Caucasus state with more than half of the vote, according to official figures. Bush called Saakashvili while taking off from Dubai for Riyadh as he toured the Middle East, U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley told reporters. "The president, just as we took off, called President-elect Saakashvili of Georgia, congratulated him on his electoral victory," Hadley said while aboard Air Force One presidential jet. Saakashvili called the snap vote last year after crushing opposition protests and raiding the country's biggest opposition television station. Georgia's election commission said Saakashvili won 53.38 percent of the vote but thousands of Georgians protested against the result.
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Moss Helps Launch Tsunami Charity
Supermodel Kate Moss has helped launch a new charity set up in remembrance of her friend who died in 2004's Indian Ocean tsunami. The British beauty was devastated when she learned model booker Samantha Archer Fayet, who she befriended early in her career, had died in Thailand along with her 6-month-old daughter Ruby Rose. The SamandRuby charity, which has been set up by Samantha's husband Patrice Fayet, will be funded by sales of a new rose created in their memory. Moss says, "Sam was one of my oldest and closest friends. If my support for the charity helps kids get a better education and start in life, it's the least I can do in memory of Sam and Ruby Rose." .
PLAYBILL ON OPENING NIGHT: Pygmalion — Do I Hear a Waltz?
Playbill.com mingles with the first-nighters of the Roundabout Theatre Company's new Broadway production of the Shaw classic, Pygmalion. * Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw's tract about attaining social mobility through proper elocution, landed at the American Airlines Theatre Oct. 18, 2007 its sixth appearance on Broadway since its arrival here Oct. 12, 1914. You thought more, right? That's because running along side the play, in our mind and DNA, is classic Lerner and Loewe. The rich-witted speechifying of the play falls on the ears of a modern audience like musical lead-ins. When Alan Jay Lerner first suggested making My Fair Lady out of Pygmalion, The Bearded Wonder shot off a terse no-thanks: "I think my words make their own music," Shaw shared. Roundabout Theatre Company is now putting that edict to the acid test with a production that returns to the original text and intent a play without music per se and minus the happy ending the world is waiting for.
Salugen Expands U.S. Distribution and Announces a Partnership with DNA ...
SAN DIEGO, Oct. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Salugen(R) (http://www.salugen.com), a leading personalized healthcare company, announces today a partnership with DNA Dimensions of Southfield, Michigan to distribute Salugen's nutritional gene testing and DNA-customized nutritional solutions in metro Detroit. DNA Dimensions will offer GenoTrim(R), a DNA-customized nutritional solution for weight management, along with other products from Salugen. "DNA Dimensions is the only DNA testing company with 14 offices around metro Detroit so we have convenient locations. By being locally owned, DNA Dimensions is part of the community we serve, which shows we care about our customers and provide superior customer service," said Mike Pickett, DNA Dimensions owner. Mr. Pickett went on to state, "We are proud to have formed a partnership with Salugen.
October 2006
No person in the U.S. shall, on the basis of sex be excluded from participation in, or denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any educational program or activity receiving federal aid." This latest initiative appears to have started when the US Department of Education announced that Title IX restrictions would not apply to experiments in grouping students on the basis of sex. I can find no reason why federal law is being waived for this except that many feel that Title IX, the gender equity law, applies only to how much money schools should be spending on school sports. In a Cape Cod Times editorial today they took the position that it was a good idea. Well, they didn't really stick out their neck; they said it is worth considering. My feeling is this: Schools should try single sex groupings it and see who it helps without tooting it all over the place as the answer. Results, in terms of test scores and emotional output should be studied.
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