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Gadfly contest: make your pick: irritating? Sometimes ... but also absolutely necessary for maintaining the nation's ideological health. Insight presents 10 political protagonists we can't live without. (Nation: political personalities).
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December 10, 2002|
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Defining a Washington Gadfly is a bit like identifying pornography: You know it when you see it. Unlike the Ritz Barfly, the Washington Gadfly is not always well-dressed. They do, however, have elegantly tailored ideas, which they produce in every available forum with frequency, fervency and phantasmagoria.
Despite a pretension to seriousness, the gadfly is an affable creature, seen fluttering amiably about cable television or stalking the halls of Congress, often in the name of some lost cause or incipient crusade. A gadfly can be in the center of the storm one day ...
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JULIA ROBERTS DESPERATE TO HAVE A BABY; It may look like Hollywood megastar Julia Roberts has it all, but the one thing she wants more than anything eludes her - and her desire for a baby is tearing her apart.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Sunday Mirror (London, England)
; ...happiness rather than fame and fortune, Julia Roberts falls way down the scale. Despite...designer clothes and prestigious awards, Julia can't have the one thing she really wants - a baby. Julia, 36, is now married to second husband...
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JULIA'S A KNOCKOUT; Scots world Tae Kwon Do champion shows she's a stunner outside ring.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
; ...TANNED, toned and glowing with health, Julia Cross can knock out the opposition just...Poland. But, despite her runaway success, Julia gets no sponsorship or funding. She trains...up at 4am to work at Edinburgh Airport. Julia, of Linlithgow, also teaches kids Tae...
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'JULIA AND JULIA' FILM CHEATS ITS AUDIENCE.(Weekend)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
; Byline: Martin Moynihan Staff writer Julia became a widow on the same day she was...smoke. Then - without even a signpost - Julia (Kathleen Turner) finds herself in...it, in the ridiculous Italian movie "Julia and Julia." Emerging from the mysterious...
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Julia Child's Copper Pots Come Home
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
; (Soundbite of music) Ms. JULIA CHILD (Chef) NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday 08-02-2009 Julia Child's Copper Pots Come Home Time 13:00...00 PM Play Audio (Soundbite of music) Ms. JULIA CHILD (Chef): Under this golden dome lies...
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JULIA'S AGONY OVER DI; Will made me tell lies about trips to Palace.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; JULIA CARLING even lied in public for husband Will...visit to Kensington Palace - after promising Julia his friendship with Princess Diana was all...promised to give Princes William and Harry. Julia backed him up, saying: "There's not...
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julia roberts romance relay; FEMAIL.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...after just nine months. But as FEMAIL proves, Julia Roberts is used to heartache. Here we reveal...HERE we are on the starting line of the Great Julia Roberts Romance Relay race. It's 1983, Julia's a sweet little 16-year-old, she...
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JULIA.(Julia Child, television personality)
Magazine article from: HFN The Weekly Newspaper for the Home Furnishing Network
; ...there was Emeril or Martha, there was Julia. Before Bob Vila's villas and the gaze of queer eyes, there was Julia. And before there was HGTV and Fine Living...devoted to feng shuing your life, there was Julia. Because as much as she had an impact...
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Julia's tangled threads; As the BBC ancestry series Who Do You Think You Are? returns to our screens, Absolutely Fabulous star JULIA SAWALHA uncovers stories of vicious persecution and fearless rebellion among her French and Arabic forebears. By JULIAN CHAMPKIN.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...thread joins the families of Ab Fab star Julia Sawalha's parents - and thread is the...weaving. And following that thread led Julia into the fascinating world of her own ancestry...While exploring her family history, Julia discovered two very different weaving communities...
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Julia under the stairs: Julia wanted a place that was just for her.(Short Story)
Magazine article from: Highlights for Children
; When Julia's little sister, Ellie, was born, her mother said to Julia, "Now you will have to share." As Ellie got older, Julia had to share her dolls and her toys. She had to share the conversation at the dinner table. She even had to...
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FOREVER JULIA
Newspaper article from: Sun Publications (IL)
; ...someone stand beside her was something Julia Duncker didn't take for granted. During...provided stability and was there to hold Julia's hand when life was most difficult...s been wonderful through everything," Julia said in January 1998, when she was 14...
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