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...scrambled and diminised by the storm. Gustav's arrival was heralded with a kind of grandeur: the city's mayor, C. Ray Nagin, pronounced it "the storm of the century," a declaration that seems to have had remarkable success in a region that once stared down hurricanes with a beer. Nearly 1.9 million residents of Louisiana's lower tier fled. Still, there's a chance this could have all been an expensive exercise, a chance for state and local authorities to prove they could actually coordinate a plan. The political accounting for that may take weeks to accumulate...
...Friday night, and there have got to be 500 people packed into the Sluice Box, a beer-soaked clapboard honky-tonk at the Alaska State Fair - the state's biggest event all year - just down the highway from Governor Sarah Palin's hometown of Wasilla. The legendary Hobo Jim, Alaska's official state balladeer, the guy who has opened sessions of the legislature with a song, is onstage, working blue...
...best I can. But there've been times I'd like to not answer." For the past 48 hours, stories have been breaking in great shuddering waves; one profile explores her beloved father's criminal record (he was a bootlegger before he was a fantastically successful beer distributor), which followed multiple accounts of her half sister's resentment of her and a furor over her husband's inability to account for how many houses they own. All this comes as she prepares to step out center stage in Minneapolis and help her husband woo the female voters...
...history and coach teenagers. Like nearly everyone else on McCain's virtually all-male senior staff, the two men have fashioned themselves as ragtag outsiders, buddies and true believers in McCain who will play hard and play to win. Then after hours, instead of sipping martinis, they seek out beer to drink like college kids. Like nearly everything else in McCain's life, Salter and Schmidt are a team that can seem haphazard, a tad risky, even a little unlikely. But McCain wouldn't have it any other...
...politician, he was inspired by the sunny conservatism of Ronald Reagan, especially Reagan's efforts to rehabilitate Vietnam as a noble cause and the military as an honorable profession. McCain's first marriage had crumbled - he has admitted he was unfaithful - but he was remarried, to an Arizona beer heiress named Cindy Hensley, and the day in 1982 a Phoenix Congressman announced his retirement, she bought a house in his district. McCain was elected to the House as a Reagan Republican that year, but he already had his eye on the Senate. He easily moved up in 1986 after Barry...