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...Obama's Achilles' Heel Senator Barack Obama has previously told us that words matter, and the venomous, vitriolic and racially divisive words of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright are fraught with meaning of the most disturbing kind [March 31]. As your story observed, Obama failed to answer the central question that troubled American voters are asking: Why would Obama choose Wright to be his spiritual guide and personal mentor? And if Obama's candidacy is about the future, why would he expose his young daughters to such poisonous rhetoric of the past? Although he delivered his speech with his usual grace...
...have a tattoo on your hand. What is it, and why did you get it? -Charles Adkins, Aventura, Fla.The short answer is, I got drunk. I think I write about it in the book. But yes, I got drunk on an Indian reservation in Minnesota. It's a South American Indian sign...
...answer, on the whole, is no. On a practical level, only a quarter of students live near the QRAC, and there are other, nicer gyms that are perhaps a bit further away. Students here are for the most part extremely tolerant, and they were likely just as angry about how the situation was handled—for instance the particular hours selected for the closure,or the lack of prior notification—as they were about the closure itself. While the QRAC closure is certainly a campus story worthy of the front page of this newspaper...
...only happening overseas. "How do you sustain an Army ... where the soldiers are volunteers, and the families are volunteers, and get them to stay with us during these very challenging times?" Army Secretary Pete Geren wondered aloud to military bloggers on March 26. At least part of the answer is money: The Army is doubling what it spends to take care of families, he said. The Pentagon is experimenting with three-year sabbaticals - including health benefits, but no pay - for personnel desiring a break in their military service. Other family-friendly measures include letting family members tap into their soldier...
...over yet for Ahern. He still has to appear before the investigating tribunal to answer more questions about what he admits were "unusual" financial arrangements. But, provided he gets through that, his legacy as a transformational leader is secure. Nor should anyone assume he's finished on the political stage. Minutes after his resignation speech, bets were being laid in Dublin that the next president of the European Union will be known as Bertie...