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...project that will receive a boost from Sarah Palin's plan to step down as the governor of Alaska is her much touted autobiography, for which it will provide a hotly anticipated chapter. In May, HarperCollins announced that it had signed Palin to write a tell-all memoir. Unusual for a high-powered celebrity autobiography, there was no auction or bidding for the book; Palin negotiated only with HarperCollins, owned by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., the same media company that owns the Fox News channel, which had strongly backed Palin's run for Vice President last year. While...
...Alaska's RAT ISLAND rat-free after 229 years. Manhattan to finally get its title back...
...their bosses. (For her to be sweet, he says, "is going to require that you stop snacking on children when they dream.") The Proposal also employs the antique device of the warring couple obliged to act like lovers. Margaret and Andrew have to meet his parents back home in Alaska and sell the pretense that they're happily engaged, leading to many forced smiles and private grimaces...
...latest showcase involved President Obama's $787 billion stimulus package. Sanford led a group of GOP governors, including Alaska's Sarah Palin and Louisiana's Bobby Jindal, assailing it as fiscal suicide. Sanford even likened it to the hyper-inflationary policies of Zimbabwean dictator Robert Mugabe, and he spent the past spring fighting to reject a quarter of South Carolina's $2.8 billion share of the funds unless he could use it to reduce the state's debt...
...Meanwhile, interceptor missiles in Alaska "are clearly in a position to take action" if Hawaii is threatened, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on June 18. "We do have some concerns, if they were to launch a missile to the west in the direction of Hawaii," he added. "We are in a good position, should it become necessary, to protect Americans and American territory." If a North Korean shot somehow draws close, Marine General James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on June 16 that he felt "very comfortable," predicting that existing U.S. missile defenses have...