Word: alongism
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...with a smile: "Have you noticed," he asked just before this year's Super Bowl, "some players with hair that sticks from under their helmets?" And he respected his elders, sending best wishes to long-married couples: "Agnes and John Caroline in Lavalette, N.J., are 71 years along the way to forever together...
...month ago, Harvey knocked Nancy Pelosi because she "rubber-stamped" the stimulus package. He called on Congress to do its job and not "sit on the economic skillet and let the pork sizzle." This was mild stuff compared with a joke Harvey passed along to his listeners in September 2007 about an imaginary meeting of David Petraeus and Chelsea Clinton. The President's daughter asks the general if he's afraid of anything, and Harvey gives this reply: "I am afraid of three things. I am afraid of Osama, and I am afraid of Obama, and, Ms. Clinton...
...everything," writes Christopher Potter in You Are Here. A former literary publisher, Potter set aside that all-too-common fear and got to writing a layman's guide to the universe, a relatively brief look at how the breadth of scientific theory has evolved since the birth of mankind. Along the way, he makes the case for why scientific inquiry should be engaged in even by non-scientists. "Who can deny the universe when there is so much of it?" (Read "Nicaragua's Vampire Problem...
...TIME, the men make it clear that it wasn't just jungle fare that left a bad taste in their mouths. Some of their more unpleasant memories are saved for fellow hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a French-Colombian who was kindapped while campaigning for the Colombian presidency and was rescued along with the Americans and 11 other hostages last summer. The authors describe the married Betancourt as carrying on an affair with a Colombian hostage, acting like a privileged blue-blood - "a frickin' princess" in Stansell's telling - bossing around the other prisoners and hoarding precious books, food and a transistor...
...with the profits from drug trafficking and kidnapping. When the Americans were captured, the FARC was at its peak with about 18,000 members. Rations included beef and vegetables, rebel commandantes showed off their chrome-plated pistols and zipped around guerrilla territory in SUVs while guards led their prisoners along jungle trails singing songs with little fear of being detected. Many of the foot soldiers were illiterate teenagers who, in between battles, munched on candy and played with yo-yos and pea-shooters...