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Editor, The Times: As a woman and a mother of girls, I am writing to say I absolutely agree with Monday's editorial "Lift the Plan B ban" Times, July 7. The question that came to my mind was, how do Gov. Christine Gregoire and her Republican opponent Dino Rossi feel about access to Plan B? Gregoire focused on health care during her first term. She also stressed that a pharmacist or employer's personal beliefs should not hamper a woman's ability to acquire Plan B medications. I see a clear difference between the candidates: Gregoire, The Seattle Times editorial board and I agree that pharmacists don't have the right to refuse valid Plan B prescriptions to women because of their personal beliefs. Rossi and ultraconservatives think that pharmacists should be able to provide moral lessons to their patients via the medications they will or will not dispense - Liza White A central fallacy exists in the editorial board's position on Plan B: Pharmacists are not pushing "personal views on others" by not fulfilling a single-purpose prescription that is contrary to the business owner's religious and/or moral views.
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Robert Downey Jr. to tackle mysteries as Sherlock Holmes (Entertainment, 4 articles)
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Archaeologist Marina Oncevska said Thursday that the 5-foot-6-inch-tall marble Venus is a masterpiece of ancient art executed in the late classical Greek tradition. Robert Downey Jr is in final negotiations to play Sherlock Holmes in director Guy Ritchie's movie about the crime fighter, according to a report. The Iron Man star was introduced to the project through his wife, who works for one of the film's producers, The Hollywood Reporter says.
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Screen Actors Guild rejects contract offer: Hollywood producers (Entertainment, 8 articles)
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LOS ANGELES - Hollywood's major studios said the Screen Actors Guild on Thursday rebuffed the industry's "final" contract offer, a move the studios said " puts labor peace at risk. The contract at issue covers the work of 120,000 SAG members in prime-time television and movies, an industry still recovering from a 14-week screenwriters strike that ended in February. The industry group called again on SAG's leaders to submit the offer, a package the studios say is worth $250 million in additional compensation to actors over three years, to the union's rank-and-file for a ratification vote.
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Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children wins 40-year Best of the Booker Prize (Entertainment, 5 articles)
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Sir Salman Rushdie's novel Midnight's Children has won the Best of the Booker prize, as voted for by the public. Readers have spoken His sons, Zafar and Milan, were in attendance at the award ceremony at London's South Bank Centre to receive the custom-made trophy. When voting closed at 1200 BST on 8 July, 7,801 people had voted via online and text, with 36% voting for Midnight's Children.
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Dad's Pizza (Entertainment, 5 articles)
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TODAY 'S recipe bears a striking resemblance to stromboli (a k a the hippie roll), which was popular in New York's Italian restaurants in the 1960s and 70s. The hippie or "eppie" is similar to the stromboli or calzone, which is pizza dough stuffed with cheese and pepperoni or sausage. His creations are lauded in the media; his 2005 hospitalization for a foot infection was chronicled on blogs, as was a minor run-in with the health department.
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Ciccone To Reveal Madonna's Marriage Secrets (Entertainment, 4 articles)
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Madonna's brother Christopher Ciccone has revealed in his memoirs that the star is "passionately committed" to her marriage with director Guy Ritchie. The book, Life With My Sister Madonna, is due to come out on Tuesday, but was previewed by the Associated Press. According to publishing sources, the pop superstar's estranged brother reveals that Madonna and Ritchie do love each other, but not as much as the Queen of Pop loves herself and her career.
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