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Limited availability. By Carolyn Hax Dear Carolyn: Ilove my girlfriend (although she says I never say it enough). I have always been faithful, but every once ina while I will get a call from exes with whom I have remained friends. Most of the time, I even pick up the phone. Afterward, my girlfriend lets me have it for allowing them to call.

She says they are not respecting her by calling. I have introduced her to afew of these girls. We argue for hours on this. She has made comments about my parents calling and bothering us. (They would call once a week but now because they know she like it.) She like my friends to send e-mails, either.

I have told her these people mean nothing to me but friendships, and she is who I want to be with. Really Isolated in Arkansas So which is it the bottomless arguing, the jealousy, the lambasting for innocent behavior or the alienation of everyone else you care about that makes her the girl of your dreams? You a doting boyfriend; an abuse victim. You can both dress it up as love, devotion, respect or some other romantic gesture so that feel obliged to comply, but what demanding of you is servitude to her emotional problems. Your parent call doubt she can justify each stand she has taken. Maybe your parents nice to her.

Maybe an ex or two flirts. Maybe you spend less time with her than on e-mails. In any of these cases, a plea for respect would make sense. But when everyone who touches your life offends your girlfriend, and when every offense brings a demand that you sever an emotional tie, and when so many ties have been severed that the only one you have left is with her, no longer a bunch of trees a forest. Walk away.

Call 1-800-799-SAFEif you have trouble making it out. Dear Carolyn: Iam not really interested in casual dating and would like to find one great man to date. But I keep meeting people who are interested only in casually dating multiple people. Is there any way to tell if a man wants a committed relationship without outright asking, which seems desperate? I would just rather not waste my time dating someone who open to the idea of committing. Washington Iwas going to say the best way to tell was to casually date multiple people, but now just sound facetious.

And I want that. Fortunately, no limit to the ways this same point can be made (as I seem to be bent on proving). The way to find great man to is to get to know a bunch of men well enough to see who among them is great. That requires getting to know a bunch of men. Since no one right approach to that, pick your venue: work, church, bar, volunteer gig, mutual gatherings, alumni association, team, com- mitmentphobe-phobia support group, multiple casual dates.

And if you regard each person you meet, male or female, as one stage in a long education, I think stop using terms like and of Tell Me About It Demand of only one emotional tie is wrong By Paul Brownfield Times Staff Writer would it feel to be reporter Saira Shah asks Ahmed, a Palestinian boy living in Rafah, a slum on the Gaza Strip. He has no answer. He knows how to make a homemade bomb and has practiced holding a rocket on his shoulders; he knows that the Israelis are the godlessenemy. He knows a lot. But the eyes betray his fear.

He wants to be a lookout at night for Palestinian militants battling Israeli tanks. job is perfect for a little a masked Palestinian militanttells the filmmakers of in a documentary debuting at 9:30 Thursday night on HBO. suspects With the news attention currently triangulated in Iraq, in deserves to be seen. Not because of any new light it sheds on the Arab- Israeli conflict but because its imagery is raw, unfiltered and hard-won, a rebuke to all the pie- in-the-sky political rhetoric about making freedom in the Middle East. The film, the work of British cameraman James Miller and reporter Shah, was supposed to explore the roots of Palestinian- Israeli hatred through the eyes of children on both sides of this perpetual conflict.

But Miller and Shah, who previously teamed on the Peabody-winning films and the only got to the Palestinian side; on the night of May 2, 2003, Miller was shot to death by an Israeli gunfire in Ra- fah, on a night when the two were filming the bulldozing of a neighborhood suspected of harboring weapons tunnels. The Israeli soldiers in the tank, according to the documentary, were Bedouin Arabs. A subsequent forensic investigation confirmed the shots came from the tank. death actually comes to serve as the hopeful coda for a film that wanted to show more but still manages, in its 80min- utes, to illustrate how the cycle of violence in the Middle East infuses adolescence and the imaginations of boys living in an impoverished world, where defiant jihadis are the equivalent of idolized professional athletes. The children, raised for martyrdom, get sold out by their own people, by the leadership on both sides of the fighting.

not so much future adults as future victims, the film illustrates. Much of in is told from the perspective of three Palestinians living in and Mohammed, best friends in all things, including the dream of martyrdom, and Najla, a 16-year- old girl whose home is in the path of the Israeli bulldozers. Ahmed and Mohammed are shown doing what boys do: playacting at violence, except that here the violence they shadow is all too real. And so we see them assembling a makeshift explosive and playing a game of and on a dusty street. There are some very familiar scenes in this film (Palestinian kids throwing rocks at tanks) and gruesome ones (Palestinians trying to collect the tattered flesh of a bombing victim for a more proper burial).

There is another side in this narrative of endless suffering, of course, and the sad fact is that had James Miller not been shot by an Israeli armored personnel carrier, he would have crossed the divide to show it. HBO FENCED IN: Documentary subjects in in include Najla, 16, whose home is in the path of the Israeli bulldozers. TELEVISION REVIEW What the future looks like in Gaza Filmmakers set out to capture young perspectives. Then the cameraman was killed, and the story shifted. Where: HBO When: p.m.

Thursday Rating: TV-14 Executive producer Sheila Nevins. Directed and filmed by James Miller; written and reported by Saira Shah. in Season finales for Simple Life and miniseries gave substantial ratings boosts to both programs, but it was CBS that once again dominated the summer TV ratings last week. As usual, Crime Scene was the most popular show, followed by a surprising surge for first-year comedy and aHalf which drew 3 million more viewers than it had the previous week, according to data released Tuesday by Nielsen Media Research. Amazing Race is also building steam as it globe- trots.

Simple conclusion that found Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie back in the safety of Los Angeles drew nearly 10 million viewers, good enough for 10th place overall. More notably, it was the most-watched show of the week ending Sunday among viewers 18 to 49 years old, the target age group for advertisers and most networks. The penultimate episode, which aired in the half- hour just prior to the finale, tied for second in the 18-to-49 demographic, along with and But perhaps the most impressive performance last week was hit which drew a combined viewership of around 14 million viewers in its back-to-back-to-backairings Sunday night. The 9-10 p.m. showing was the most watched show on cable, with 6.13 million viewers.

The Disney Channel crowed about the success its Sept. 11- themed original movie, Tiger enjoyed with kids, teens and CBS was the most-watched network overall, with an average prime-time audience of 8.6 million viewers, followed by NBC (6.45 million), ABC (5.27 million), Fox (5.04), UPN (2.9) and the WB (2.3). Taylor season finales attract crowds Here are the rankings for national prime-time network television last week (Aug. 2-8) as compiled by Nielsen Media Research. They are based on the average number of people who watched a program from start to finish.

Nielsen estimates there are 272.04 million potential viewers in the U.S. age 2 and older. Viewership is listed in millions. Program Network View- ersProgram Network Viewers 1 CSICBS14.09 2 Two and a Half MenCBS12.80 3 CSI: MiamiCBS12.47 4 Everybody Loves Raymond CBS12.11 5 Without a TraceCBS11.28 --------------------------------------------6 Amazing Race: 5CBS10.55 7 Law SVUNBC10.31 8 60 MinutesCBS10.29 9 Cold CaseCBS10.11 10 Life: --------------------------------------------11 Big Brother 5 12 Law Criminal Intent NBC9.40 13 Simple Life 2 14 Big Brother 5 15 --------------------------------------------16 Crossing JordanNBC8.46 17 60 Minutes IICBS8.41 18 48 Hours MysteryCBS7.98 19 Navy NCISCBS7.95 20 Primetime ThursdayABC7.83 --------------------------------------------21 Trading SpousesFOX7.82 22 Who Wants to Marry My Dad 2 NBC7.80 23 Still StandingCBS7.75 24 Law 25 Yes, DearCBS7.71 --------------------------------------------26 Last Comic Standing 2 9 p.m.) NBC7.57 27 Last Comic Standing 2 (Thu.) NBC7.48 28 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Sun.) ABC7.38 29 Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Tue.) ABC7.23 30 Dateline: NBC --------------------------------------------31 Dateline: NBC 32 King of QueensCBS6.96 33 Fear FactorNBC6.88 34 35 King of Queens (9:30 p.m.) CBS6.76 --------------------------------------------36 CSI: Miami 37 According to JimABC6.63 38 Most WantedFOX6.59 39 48 Hours InvestigatesCBS6.33 40 My Wife and Kids (8:30 p.m.) ABC6.32 --------------------------------------------41 Extreme Makeover (9 p.m.) ABC6.31 42 Big Brother 5 43 My Wife and KidsABC6.22 44 Cops (8:30 p.m.)FOX6.14 45 For Love or Money 4NBC6.13 --------------------------------------------46 The SimpsonsFOX6.12 47 48 That ShowFOX6.05 49 QuintupletsFOX6.04 50 JAGCBS5.74 --------------------------------------------51 Extreme MakeoverABC5.72 52 Law Criminal Intent (10 p.m.) NBC5.71 53 Will Grace (8:30 p.m.)NBC5.58 54 Less Than PerfectABC5.43 55 Teen --------------------------------------------56 NYPD 57 WWE 58 ERNBC5.11 59 Will GraceNBC5.08 60 Financial (golf) ABC5.07 --------------------------------------------61 George LopezABC4.91 62 The DaysABC4.90 63 CopsFOX4.83 64 North ShoreFOX4.62 65 Blue Collar TVWB4.62 66 Last Comic Standing 2 8 p.m.) NBC4.58 67 Your Life 68 8 Simple RulesABC4.52 69 70 Hope FaithABC4.43 --------------------------------------------71 That ShowFOX4.42 72 CasinoFOX4.34 73 Simple Life 2 9 p.m.) FOX4.32 74 Less Than Perfect 75 Joan of ArcadiaCBS4.31 --------------------------------------------76 Arrested DevelopmentFOX4.27 77 78 Simple Life 2 8:30 p.m.) FOX4.07 79 Whose Line Is It Anyway? 10:30 p.m.) ABC4.01 80 The Drew Carey Show ABC4.00 --------------------------------------------81 Amish in the CityUPN3.97 82 83 The Drew Carey Show (9:30 p.m.) ABC3.83 84 Malcolm in the MiddleFOX3.76 85 Amazing Race 5 --------------------------------------------86 Quintuplets 87 Reba 88 SummerlandWB3.48 89 King of the HillFOX3.40 90 --------------------------------------------91 Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Sat. 10 p.m.) ABC3.27 92 Half and Half (8:30 p.m.)UPN3.16 93 One on OneUPN3.15 94 GirlfriendsUPN3.01 95 Bernie MacFOX2.72 --------------------------------------------96 Half and Half (9:30 p.m.)UPN2.68 97 The JuryFOX2.65 98 Blue Collar TV 99 Reba 100 Smallville (9 p.m.)WB2.50 --------------------------------------------101 Method and RedFOX2.45 102 7th HeavenWB2.37 103 Summerland 104 SmallvilleWB2.30 105 All of UsUPN2.30 --------------------------------------------106 EveUPN2.23 107 Gilmore GirlsWB2.19 108 109 CharmedWB2.10 110 What I Like About YouWB2.00 --------------------------------------------111 Steve Big TimeWB1.91 112 113 Grounded for LifeWB1.68 114 Studio 7WB1.62 115 Amish in the City --------------------------------------------116 Steve Big Time (7:30 p.m.) WB1.37 117 EnterpriseUPN1.11 118 Studio 7 Network averages Here is the number of viewers (in millions) that each network averaged per hour of prime time, for last week and for the season.

Network Last week Season to date CBS8.6012.00 NBC6.4510.04 ABC5.278.23 FOX5.048.67 UPN2.903.21 WB2.303.33 Prime-Time TV Rankings GOING ON VACATION? Call 1-800-252-9141 to donate your newspaper for use in local classrooms. Or log on to www.myaccount.latimes.com Everyone needs a Personal Assistant. 04ED010 Thursdays. From polishing antiques to making your own compost, has the expert advice you need to do the job right. more.