Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine-born Cuban revolutionary now dead more than 40 years, is everywhere. His iconographic image -- a photograph snapped at a mass funeral in Havana by Alberto "Korda" Díaz Gutiérrez and subsequently co-opted and adapted by publishers, artists and pretty much anyone with a Xerox machine -- has long been a symbol of protest and the little guy rising up against the ruling power. Today, it gazes at us from T-shirts, posters, album covers, coffee mugs, key chains, beach towels, beer bottles, cigarette packets, bikini bottoms -- and even, briefly, an advertisement for Smirnoff vodka. Korda's snapshot of Che, which he titled "Guerrillero Heroico," may well be the most widely reproduced image in the history of photography.

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Tuning in to it -- upstairs, in my parents' bedroom, on our one color TV -- always felt vaguely titillating, a bit naughty, and OK, maybe a little shameful, as if I were peeping into a forbidden window. Was I in elementary school? Junior high? I really can't recall, but I do remember that zazz of excitement as the opening credits rolled: the fireworks, the groovy male and female voices commingling in song, the famous faces framed in hearts. Seventies sex was so darn cute!

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But among its early posts we spotted a trend that's been bugging us for a while: It's the way we talk about our husbands these days. Those dunderheads, well-meaningly but obliviously chugging along with their everyday lives -- able to read a book in peace or play with our kids -- while the laundry piles up and the dishes need to be put in the dishwasher and tomorrow's lunches need to be packed! We're not complaining. Oh, no. We're just ... marveling at our guys' wonderful, charming obtuseness as we separate the markers from the crayons and the lights from the darks.

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That's the question filmmaker Yael Luttwak asks in her new movie, "A Slim Peace," which had its world premiere last week at the Tribeca Film Festival. Luttwak -- who is half-Israeli, half-American, and now lives in London -- was working with Palestinians and Jews in Israel, and trying to lose some weight herself, when the peace process broke down in 2000. "Something in my head just connected the two," she says.

To pull together the disparate group of women for her documentary, Luttwak solicited strangers in cafes and surveyed friends and friends of friends, including secular urban Jews, religious Jewish settlers, Bedouin Arabs, Palestinians -- young and not so young, well-off and less so. The women met regularly in Jerusalem, some of them traveling past checkpoints, an hour and a half each way, to bond over their body issues, and maybe -- just maybe -- find common ground.

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O'Reilly vs. Mr. Zsa Zsa: Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband, Prince Frederic von Anhalt, who recently said he may be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby, Dannielynn, has filed a $10 million defamation suit against Bill O'Reilly and Fox. Von Anhalt apparently takes issue with the way O'Reilly characterized him on "The O'Reilly Factor" last month: "Look, this guy's a fraud," O'Reilly said of von Anhalt. "We know he's a fraud." The talk show host also called von Anhalt a "nut," though he did add, "I say nut in an affectionate way." Now, von Anhalt says, he can't go to the grocery store without being bombarded with nasty looks. "They say, 'Look, here comes the fraud,'" he tells the Associated Press. "I get lots of e-mails from people bad-mouthing me. It's very embarrassing." (L.A. Times, Associated Press)

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It's a boy! The rumors have proved true: Angelina Jolie has adopted another little boy, a Vietnamese 3-year-old who was abandoned by his parents as an infant. On Thursday, the actress and her 5-year-old son, Maddox, picked up the boy, Pham Quang Sang (whom Jolie plans to rename Pax Thien, combining the Latin word for "peace" and a Vietnamese word meaning "heaven"), from the orphanage he called home in Ho Chi Minh City. The child cried when he saw his future mother and brother "because for him, they are strangers," Nguyen Van Trung, the director of the Tam Binh center for orphans and abandoned children, told Agence France-Presse. But Jolie, who adopted Sang as a single parent, rather than with partner Brad Pitt, since adoption by unmarried couples is not legal in Vietnam, reportedly tried to comfort the child by repeating the Vietnamese phrase "khong sao dau," which means "no problem." Ultimately, the orphanage staff calmed the boy by promising him a "fun excursion." However, Us Weekly reports that the boy hid and cried through the subsequent adoption ceremony as well. (AFP, Us Weekly)

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But Larry gets the viewers -- he's the top-rated show on CNN. Why? Because Larry gets the guests. And why does Larry get the guests? Well, because Larry gets the viewers ... Lather, rinse, repeat.

Of course the other reason guests go on King's show is those banal questions. Whether a guest is flogging a forthcoming movie, airing a few carefully chosen words about a divorce, defending himself in the face of a potentially career-ruining scandal or just trying to sell a war to the American people, he can be sure that Larry will keep him squarely in his comfort zone. (Heck, a guest in real trouble can even bring his mommy along.)

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"It is a standard means of treating just about any pregnancy-related problem in the United States. Women at risk of preterm labor, women with too much or too little amniotic fluid, women with placenta previa (where the placenta implants on or near the cervix), women with pregnancy-induced hypertension, women whose fetuses are judged to be growing poorly, women with multiple fetuses and women with chronic health problems are all likely to find themselves on bed rest," writes Biltson, who was prescribed bed rest during her own pregnancy. "Indeed, doctors prescribe it for about one in five of all pregnant women, or around 750,000 women a year."

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Well, he doesn't exactly take my questions, but he does talk to me, and over the course of the next 45 minutes -- longer, much to the surprise and confusion of the trio of press handlers eavesdropping on our conversation from behind a half-wall, than our scheduled time -- the rock icon reveals himself to be a man of opposites, as high-contrast as the Warhol-era photography that first seriously inspired him to pick up a camera nearly three decades ago.

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