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Has anyone seen or heard Barbara Boxer whining recently? Her absence was discussed last weekend at two social functions.

Man-made beauty puzzles police (China Daily) Updated: 2007-02-01 09:06 The results of a face-lift can seem miraculous, but patients beware plastic surgery and passports don't always mix. A woman who was returning home after having a face-lift in South Korea left immigration officials at Shanghai Pudong International Airport scratching their heads on Monday as they struggled to match the man-made beauty before them with the picture in her passport. A policeman surnamed Liu stopped the woman because of the obvious difference in her appearance. "Is this really your passport? The woman in the photo is square-faced, but your face is...

France's own Dr. Roger Amar, pioneer of the F.A.M.I (Facial Autografting Muscle Injection), will be visiting the United States from January 2 to January 7, 2007 to teach American surgeons and make this innovative procedure available to interested, eligible candidates. Dr. Amar's U.S. base will be New York City, NY and Philadelphia, PA. F.A.M.I is a systematized full-face injection for pan-facial restoration and has been performed successfully on over 500 patients. The procedure can give a genuine restoration and/or rejuvenation without the presence of foreign bodies. Instead of tightening and shortening by incision of unsupported skin, F.A.M.I injects the face...

U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) listens to the testimony of U.S. Secretary of Defense nominee Robert Gates at the Senate Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, December 5, 2006 REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

Tikrit -- Iraq has been serious in its efforts to improve the rule of law. To help the city improve judicial services to its 100,000 residents, the Army Corps of Engineers recently renovated and expanded Tikrit’s courthouse.The city, located on the banks of the Tigris River, is the capital of Salah ad Din Province and has the added responsibility to adjudicating cases from the entire province. Engineers renovated he courthouse to provide better conditions for the region’s new political leaders to do their jobs. The electrical renovation included new wiring and fixtures throughout the old building, enabling it to support...

A biography of late Alice In Chains frontman Layne Staley might be turned into a movie, reports Blabbermouth.net. A press release from Arts Publications indicated that Argentinean journalist Adriana Rubio has been contacted by Philadelphia-based filmmaker Eric Moyer about making a film version of her book, Layne Staley: Get Born Again. Moyer said in a statement, "I am determined to make this film about Layne Staley, not only to celebrate his life and talent, but to warn others through his compelling story that heroin will kill you...no matter who you are." Staley died in April of 2002 after struggling with...

General view of the Sphinx and pyramids at Giza. The Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the most famous monuments of Pharaonic Egypt, is to get a facelift, the Egyptian ministry of culture said.(AFP/File/Amr Nabil) CAIRO (AFP) - The Great Sphinx of Giza, one of the most famous monuments of Pharaonic Egypt, is to get a facelift, the Egyptian ministry of culture said. Restoration work on the noseless creature undertaken by the High Council for Antiquities is to focus on the beast's neck and chest, rendered fragile by the erosion of desert winds. Egyptian antiquities boss Zahi Hawas said...

January 21, 2006 Berkeley, California My feminist friends think I'm nuts but I had to do it. As a divorced woman well into my fifties, I needed a little "help" getting back into the dating game. After much agonizing, I decided to get a little cosmetic surgery. Nothing really major, just a face, brow, and breast lift. The only problem, I didn't have much money and local doctors quoted me over $15,000.00 for the procedures. Luckily, my cousin Jean knew of a friend's aunt who had a face lift done in Argentina for a fraction of what she would have...

ALBANY, N.Y. - New York's Republican Party county leaders recommended Monday that Jeanine Pirro abandon her struggling campaign to challenge Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and instead run for state attorney general. State GOP Chairman Stephen Minarik said no vote was taken but that was the consensus of the county leaders. Rockland County Chairman Vincent Reda said the support for a Pirro switch was "overwhelming." There was no immediate comment from the Pirro campaign. The county chairmen also voted in favor of having former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld run for governor in his native New York, Minarik said. However, that ballot...

ALBANY, Dec. 12 - After weeks of messy public squabbling, leaders of the New York Republican Party met in a smoke-free back room here on Monday and reversed course, urging Jeanine F. Pirro to quit her bid to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and run for state attorney general next year. Ms. Pirro, the district attorney of Westchester County, immediately issued a statement rejecting the suggestion, saying, "I remain a candidate for U.S. Senate, but I greatly respect the opinion of the county chairs and their confidence in my abilities as a statewide candidate." The shift by the party came...

The GOP is once failing to support a promising Republican Woman candidate for higher office . The New York GOP does not want her to run against Hillary Clinton for her U.S. Senate seat . Instead they want her to run for State Attorney General again . The reason seems that Pirro is not as fabulously weel funded as Hillary for a U.S. Senate Campaign . Also, Pirro's campaign got off to a messy start .it

Gov. Pataki (l.) Mayor Bloomberg, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly and former Mayor Rudy Giuliani join other officials in paying respects to slain Officer Daniel Enchautegui. Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro was seen giggling and chatting outside a Bronx church after the funeral Mass for slain Police Officer Danny Enchautegui - spurring outrage from cops. One officer brusquely told her to "shut up," prompting Pirro to zip her lips and snap to attention just after the flag-draped coffin holding Enchautegui was placed into a nearby hearse. While grim-faced Finest stood ramrod-straight, Pirro drew glares from the hero cop's fellow officers...

  AN OPEN LETTER TO TIM ROBBINS, DAVID GEFFEN, CHRIS MATTHEWS, MAUREEN DOWD + JEANINE PIRRO RE: a not-so-modest proposal concerning hillary clinton December 7, 2005 Dear Concerned Americans, Hillary Clinton's revisionist tome notwithstanding, 'living history' begets a certain symmetry. It is in that light that I make this not-so-modest proposal on this day, exactly 64 years after the attack on Pearl Harbor. The context of our concern today--regardless of political affiliation--is Iraq and The War on Terror, but the larger fear is that our democracy may not survive. We have the requisite machines, power and know-how to defeat the...

Jeanine Pirro is expected to quit her bid to unseat Sen. Hillary Clinton as early as tomorrow, prematurely ending what had been billed as one of the nation's marquee races. Just a few months ago, the smart, aggressive and charming Westchester district attorney was the darling of a Republican Party convinced she was the right candidate who - even if she couldn't beat Clinton - could at least slice into her high approval ratings. But now, Pirro, 54, is being written off as the first political roadkill of the 2006 election season. And Clinton never even had to throw a...

Jeanine Pirro is preparing to call off her challenge to Sen. Hillary Clinton, but she might be boxed out of the state attorney general's race, too, Republican insiders said yesterday. Well-placed GOP sources said there could very well be no room for Pirro on the Republican ticket because potential attorney general candidate Chauncey Parker has impressed county leaders. Parker, a former Manhattan prosecutor who is the state criminal justice czar, now has the inside track on getting the party nod to vie for the attorney general post being vacated by Democrat Eliot Spitzer, the sources said. Pirro apparently has fallen...

As if the sun were finally shining upon her, Jeanine F. Pirro strode coatless onto a chilly Manhattan sidewalk yesterday and declared to reporters that her campaign to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was "going extremely well," and she was in it to win it. As if, only minutes earlier, Gov. George E. Pataki had not talked to her about withdrawing from the race, which he had. Michael Long, the head of the state Conservative Party and an ally of Ms. Pirro's in some past campaigns, said yesterday that her Senate candidacy was in a "meltdown" and indicated that his...

Embattled Republican Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro will hold an "emergency summit" with Gov. Pataki today as she weighs pulling out of the race against Hillary Rodham Clinton. A leading Republican official said Pirro was "weighing her options, weighing her future as a Senate candidate." The source added, "She wants to hear what the governor has to say about this. She's open." Pirro, whose troubled campaign was thrown into serious doubt this week when state Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno urged her to run for attorney general instead, sought the meeting with the governor to discuss the direction of her campaign,...

New York -- Jeanine Pirro said Friday she is staying in the race against Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, despite pressure from some top Republicans that she abandon her struggling campaign. "I said from the beginning I am running for the United States Senate. I am a candidate for the United States Senate," Pirro said after emerging from a two-hour meeting with Gov. George Pataki in Manhattan. She said her meeting went well but did not detail the discussion.

Bruno: Pirro should quit anti-Clinton race By MARC HUMBERT AP Political Writer November 29, 2005, 12:44 PM EST ALBANY, N.Y. -- The most powerful Republican in the state Legislature called Tuesday for Jeanine Pirro to give up her quest to unseat Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2006 and run instead for state attorney general. State Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno said the Westchester County district attorney could win the attorney general's race while in running for Senate, "she's going to have one of the most competitive races in the state." Independent polls have shown the former first lady well ahead...

Jeannine Pirro should get out of this race immediately. Her campaign is going nowhere and she is selfishly wasting our time. Here's why. “Forty-five percent (45%) now see [Senator Hillary] Clinton as politically liberal.” So says the Rusmussen Report. Why? What positions do voters believe Hillary Clinton holds that turn them off? Well people believe she supports gay “marriage.” They believe she supports abortion up to and including partial birth abortion. Likewise, they believe she supports extreme positions attacking the second amendment and they believe she supports affirmative action. Since she is the most calculating person in American politics this...

ALBANY, Nov. 29 - Jeanine F. Pirro's bid to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered an embarrassing setback on Tuesday when the State Legislature's most powerful Republican said she should call the whole thing off and run for state attorney general instead. The remarks by the official, Joseph L. Bruno, the majority leader of the State Senate, forced out into the open simmering concerns about Ms. Pirro's candidacy, which has been beset by gaffes and fund-raising difficulties. And it heightened the sense that the state Republican Party is nervous about its future and riven by squabbles as its de facto...

Isn't strange that Sean Hannity prides himself on his reach and he has yet to discover the truth about Jeannine Pirro? Look at the parallels between the Pirro effort and the attempt to clear Harriet Miers way onto the Supreme Court. We were asked to trust the president on Ms. Miers, I did. My trust began to wane when some of what we were told in support of the nomination turned out to be untrue. Ultimately Ms. Miers problems were greater than she could handle because her nomination was not built on a solid foundation. The efforts toward securing the...

November 16, 2005 -- ALBANY — Republican Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro refused yesterday to back President Bush's selection of Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court, in part because of Alito's past anti-abortion views. The refusal by Pirro, who backs abortion rights, drew a quick condemnation from state Conservative Party leader Mike Long, whose support Pirro has been aggressively seeking. "I'm assuming Jeanine supported Bush for president and, therefore, she should be out front supporting the president's nominee for the Supreme Court — because we know Hillary Clinton is going to vote 'no,' " Long said. Pirro, the outgoing Westchester district...

New York Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro is blasting 2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton for throwing a birthday party tonight for Ku Klux Klansman-turned-Senator Robert Byrd at the home of a civil rights pioneer. "It's outrageous and shocking that Senator Clinton and her Democrat colleagues would choose Frederick Douglass' house to honor Senator Robert Byrd, who has a history of involvement with hate groups and has used racial slurs publicly," said Pirro spokeswoman Andrea Tantaros told the Associated Press. "Any person who has made racially insensitive comments and participated in groups that promote ethnic prejudice - Republican or Democrat - does...

Pirro Has Yet to Take Off GOPer Lagging in Polls With Clinton By Josh Kurtz Roll Call Staff November 15, 2005 Jeanine Pirro, the choice of Republican leaders to take on Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) next year, is struggling to establish herself as a formidable contender, political observers in Albany and Washington, D.C., believe. Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney who was recruited into the race when better-known candidates declined to run, is in the midst of a surprisingly tough battle with former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer to secure the Republican nomination, though she is still the favorite. "If...

New York U.S. Senate hopeful Jeanine Pirro is attacking 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for being soft on terror during her Senate career as well as the eight years she served as co-president with husband Bill Clinton. "Hillary claims to be tough on terrorism, yet she voted against a bill to add 2,000 new border patrol agents," Pirro said in a fundraising letter mailed on Thursday. "And rather than get tough on North Korea's Kim Jong II who is actively pursuing nuclear weapons, Hillary pushed for a massive aid 'appeasement' package for North Korea." "It didn't work for Bill Clinton...

JEANINE PIRRO Conservatives eye rival. Jeanine Pirro's little-known opponent for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate is close to winning crucial backing from the small but influential Conservative Party, insiders say. Such a success by former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer would deny Pirro a vital endorsement in what would already be — if she is the GOP nominee — an uphill battle against incumbent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. And it would be the latest blow for Pirro, the outgoing Westchester County district attorney whose campaign has been marred by stumbles and fund-raising shortfalls. Tactically, Spencer, a tough-talking ex-Marine who...

Last week, Jeanine F. Pirro assembled the press corps in Albany to announce a statewide advertising campaign meant to draw attention to her criminal justice agenda, a pillar of her campaign to unseat Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton next year. But if Ms. Pirro, the Westchester County district attorney, hoped the event would give her flagging campaign the lift it needed, she might have been mistaken. Mrs. Clinton's political operation moved swiftly to undercut the announcement's significance and, more important, deprive her of any positive news coverage: a political operative from the state party was dispatched to the Pirro event to...

Since we can't post from The Journal News - you can click on the link for the story Pirro Assembling Team

Pirro, rivals contrast records By NOREEN O'DONNELL THE JOURNAL NEWS NANUET — Listening to Westchester District Attorney Jeanine Pirro yesterday, it was as if she had already gotten the Republican nomination to challenge U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton. The problem? The three men who will not get out of her way. "I'm running against Hillary Clinton, no one else," Pirro said at a meeting with Republican officials at a Comfort Inn to interview candidates for state offices. "I'm interested in addressing the issues that this state is confronted with." But also present were Manhattan lawyer Ed Cox and former Yonkers Mayor...

N. Korean Cigarettes and Liquor Receive A Radical Facelift Inter-Korean Design Exchange Association (in S. Korea) suggested new designs for the a N. Korean cigarette package and a liquor bottle. The ones on the left are original N. Korean products, the Red Star Cigarettes and the Azalea Liquor, and the ones on the right are the newly designed package and bottle. They hope the new designs would help boost their sale abroad.

“FACELIFT” TAX TAKES HOLDJan 26, 2005 - FreeMarketNews.comby staff reportsA tax bill is being considered in the Washington State Legislature that would add “cosmetic medical services” to an existing list of services currently being taxed. Cosmetic surgery would take its place alongside the taxing of ski lift tickets, tanning salons and janitorial services. The bill has 4 sponsors, one of whom is Jeanne Kohl-Welles. It appears that in a small way, she may be hoping to level the “net worth playing field.” According to Washington-based King5 News, Kohl-Welles believes her is a "rather novel" approach. "In most cases, those who...

Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., said Sunday that when the full Senate debates the nomination of Dr. Condoleezza Rice to be Secretary of State on Tuesday, she intends to repeat charges that Rice deliberately misled the nation about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "I will lay out again on the Senate floor [why] I do not believe [she] has been candid with the American people," Sen. Boxer told CNN's "Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer." "[She's] gone on shows like yours and made statements that I don't think were true, or they were half-true, didn't tell the whole story, didn't level...

ATLANTA - A federal grand jury has returned an 18-count indictment charging former state schools Superintendent Linda Schrenko with stealing more than $500,000 in federal education funds. About half of that money went to Schrenko's failed bid for the Republican nomination for governor in 2002, said acting U.S. Attorney Sally Yates. Merle Temple, the state's former deputy superintendent and Schrenko's gubernatorial campaign manager, and Stephan Botes, the owner of a computer consulting company, also are charged in the indictment, Yates said. Schrenko is expected to make an initial appearance before a magistrate judge in Atlanta on Monday.

Perhaps I'm overreacting, but a recent phenomenon is starting to get to me. Within the past ten days or so, two perfect strangers have approached me and said I look like John Kerry. I don't do anything to provoke this. I'm just me. It happened again tonight at the mall when I was picking up new eyeglasses. The lab tech, apparently thinking he was Jay Leno, stepped out of the lab in his little smock and said, "Hey, does anybody ever say that you look like John Kerry?" My wife grabbed her sides in laughter (she knows I hate this)....

I did a search but didn't see this posted. I also googled the topic. During the debates, Edwards seemed like his face has had some work. His cheeks are very smooth, his forehead a little bit, too, but didn't seem Botoxed.

Best-selling author Olivia Goldsmith has died after her facelift went wrong. She was best known for The First Wives Club which was turned into the 1996 hit film starring Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler and Diane Keaton as three friends who take their revenge on cheating husbands who dump them for younger women. The 54-year-old writer, whose real name was Justine Rendal, had been in a deep coma for more than a week caused by a reaction to an anaesthetic while she was having plastic surgery. She died last night at the Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan after failing to regain...

Okay, gang. Here is your opportunity to post your most hideous pictures of Nasty Pelosi. MIDI - THE FIRST TIME EVER I SAW YOUR FACE - Roberta Flack The first time I lifted up your face...I turned to my nurse...and I asked her, "Just what have I done?" Omigosh...can you tell me...what I have become? Frankenstein...Dr. Frankenstein The first time I lifted up your face...oh, I had a hunch...I'd lose my lunch...get the mop and broom I blew chunks...man, they were big chunks...all across the room Frankenstein...Dr. Frankenstein The first time I lifted up your face...if I did it wrong...there'd...

<p>HANOI, Vietnam (Reuters) -- Communist Vietnam is giving the hometown of revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh a facelift in the hopes of making it a bigger draw for tourists.</p> <p>Prime Minister Phan Van Khai has approved the project to conserve Kim Lien village, the central Vietnam birthplace of the president who died in 1969 at 79.</p>

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PRINCETON, NJ -- She may be the most controversial first lady in American history. She is the first first lady to run for office on her own after leaving the White House. Hillary Rodham Clinton's memoirs "Living History" fetched an $8 million advance from publisher Simon & Schuster -- one of the highest book advances for a political figure on record. The New York senator's book hits the shelves at America's bookstores Monday, and figures to be another chapter in the public's love-hate relationship with the Clintons. The latest CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll, conducted May 30-June 1, asked Americans for the...

<p>The Bureau of Engraving and Printing will unveil a new $20 bill that will introduce a predominant but subtle color into the background, marking the first time in modern history that a bill will feature a color other than green.</p>

A spoof aimed at Greta Van Susteren's eye-lift got Barbara Walters' dander up to the extent that she blasted its author twice on national TV. According to the Washington Post's TV Column, Walters used her "The View" show on ABC to strike back at a woman she refused to identify because of the final line of a parody she didn't mention that asserted she's had 82 face lifts - about 79 more than she's reported to have had. What helped stoke Walters' anger was the fact that the offender -a jobless TV news reporter - had sought her help in...