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...overseas English-language newspapers in election years, but this time they also sent a stream of prominent supporters to campaign abroad. Kerry's sister, Diana, chairman of Americans Overseas for Kerry, swung through six European cities last month to shore up support. Bush adviser Karl Rove, the President's aunt, Nancy Bush Ellis, and former Vice President Dan Quayle have all hit the European trail as part of the re-election campaign. No group is too small to court. Four congressional candidates phoned in to a recent fund-raising dinner attended by 60 Democrats at Joe Allen's, an American...
According to my aunt, this particular palace had become a museum. The leaders of the 1979 Islamic revolution had never lived there. Imam Khomeini, who led the revolution, had lived in a small, mud-brick house after...
...aunt told me, “he was a humble man. So respectful of women, too. He used to say that men should always address women in the ‘shoma’ form...
...little girl could be given a pony ride by her aunt Kay, and the virus of horsewomanship enters her blood, and thereafter, every Saturday morning for the next 12 years, I must drive her to Foxcroft Stables and watch Emmett, the chain-smoking, bourbon-soaked stableman, help my child up onto Crimson Blaze, who gallops away, leaping over hedges and fences, and after 15 minutes, I need a powerful tranquilizer, the kind they'd administer to a horse. Or a little girl could pick up a hockey stick and sense its potential for violence, and thus 10 years later...
...year-old can be managed rather well. My little girl, thanks to her vigilant mother, does not watch television (except for approved videos) or eat fast food (except when with her aunt) or drink soda pop (ditto) or use foul language. She wears clean clothes and is fed fresh fruit and vegetables and that sort of thing. She is taken to kiddie concerts of classical music and to children's theater. At bedtime, with a little prompting, she bows her head and prays for people. Her teeth are clean and bright. Here I am, an old Democrat...