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...home. "The idea is to look good over there," says Stanford University economist Lawrence Lau. "You want to be able to tell people you are a big man in Washington. You have dinner with the President, and your picture is taken with him. People back home will then say, 'Ah, this guy is well connected.'" In Indonesia last week, as news of the controversy spread, the Riadys were variously reported by their secretaries as being "out of the office," "on a business trip" or "on the other line." --Reported by Sandra Burton/Hong Kong, Michael Shari/Jakarta, Douglas Waller/Washington and James Willwerth/Los...
...approaching 40, and I have had to make zero concessions to getting older. Well, sure, when I wake up my joints sound like monkeys on drugs fencing with baseball bats. Think I'll just sit right down here and Uhhh!...Oh, my, oh, my, Hmm, hmm, hmm. Ah, what the heck, if those young lions want me, they can come get me, but I am not getting up. ALEX KASEBERG San Diego Via E-mail...
...Ah, yes. The public now sees all, but knows less. We push ourselves and our cameras through the doors of barns and living rooms and coffee shops in Iowa and New Hampshire, and dozens of us capture a politician talking to a single petrified farmer or shopkeeper or housewife. And every word that candidate utters has been polled and market-tested until nothing fresh remains. We brought conventions into living rooms across America, and every trace of honest disagreement, every hint of personal eccentricity has long since been banished from the halls. We throw floodlights into the press rooms after...
...fake Western accent, will focus on bovines, "the puurtiest darn cows I've ever seen." But he's not talking about barnyard animals, and his brother and co-host Chris waddles onto the scene to set things straight. The show is actually about sea cows. What are sea cows? Ah, that's the fun on Kratts' Creatures--finding such things...
...mailbox, many a youngster finds a thin, seemingly innocent envelope from the Clerk of New York County. But this little letter is far from innocent; it is a passport to days of sitting in hot, stuffy rooms with other hot, sweaty people, all in the service of the Commonwealth. Ah, jury duty...