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...cold like boat refugees, and I excoriate and extol and exhort in uplifting cadences about this evil war, the miserable economy that is bringing back the 60-hr. workweek and the folks who don't mind this war so long as their kids don't have to fight it. Afterward we hobnob in the kitchen and enjoy a little solidarity around coffee and fudge bars, but as I drive home, the car wants to head west out across the prairie, toward the wilderness, away from newspapers and TV and politics, to a cabin, a lake, a boat...
...indignities of paralysis. In private, he was more candid. He had vowed, shortly after the 1995 horseback-riding injury that left him a quadriplegic, that he would walk again by his 50th birthday. That milestone came--and went--in 2002. "I'm tired of being noble," he confessed shortly afterward in a long conversation with TIME. "I try to go about this with as much dignity as I can, but not a day goes by when I don't make some effort to get out of this situation...
...problems, both parties have been getting an early jump by filing lawsuits. If a particular voter?s name doesn?t show up in the rolls on Election Day, HAVA requires states to offer provisional ballots. The ballots will be counted if officials confirm the person is a registered voter afterward. But Republican election officials in several states are mandating that provisional ballots can only be counted if they are cast in the voter?s correct precinct. Democrats are suing, claiming that discriminates against the poor and minority voters, who tend to change addresses more often. A judge in Ohio ruled...
...bleachers, a group of athletes in bright-red varsity jackets clustered in a heart shape in the center of the crowd. They were supposed to represent the bereaved Littleton. We stood there until an aerial photograph was taken. We sent prints of the photograph to Colorado, and for weeks afterward felt awfully proud of the depth of our sympathy...
...troops taking special care to seize Samarra's Golden mosque, denying the rebels the kind of rallying point they had had when they hunkered down in the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf. Although fighting continued throughout the afternoon and sporadically into Friday night, the enemy simply seemed to evaporate afterward. "By about [2:00 p.m.] they realized what they were up against and withdrew," says Captain Jim Pangelinan, who led his Alpha Company of the 1/14 into the western edge of the city. Withdrawing, however, can be the most confounding thing the insurgents...