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This book began as an assignment for a TV show, right? It was first going to be a series about the Bush dynasty, and then I had this amazingly good trip to Hawaii where I met [onetime psychic spy] Glenn Wheaton, who told me about Project Jedi and training U.S. soldiers to reach Level 2 - "Intuition" - then Level 3 - "Invisibility," which I thought was such a great leap. Level 1 is, like, eat only nuts and grains for a month, and Level 3 is invisibility? It was the greatest interview of my life...
...Kucharczyk ran over to the scorer’s table, a Crimson possession began to formulate and a coaching assistant yelled at Kucharczyk to remain on the field. Kucharczyk then sprinted toward the goal where Bannon had stolen the ball in front of the net. After Bannon’s shot was batted away by Nagengast, Kucharczyk collected the rebound and put away the score...
Last year, members of the UC began developing a new program to meet the “need” left by the abrupt termination of the old party grants, according to UC President Andrea R. Flores ’10. “People really feel the absence of the party fund,” she said.The Social Grants Act was approved in April and included many of the same restrictions carried over to the current proposal in order to appease many of the administration’s concerns, former UC Finance Committee Chair Sundeep S. Iyer...
...historic Eastland Park Hotel in downtown Portland, Scott Fish of the Stand for Marriage Maine campaign told TIME that the other side had acted with too much haste and too little respect for voters' wishes. "What's the hurry [for gay marriage]?" asked Fish, whose group began seeking a so-called people's veto almost immediately after Maine's Democratic (and Catholic) governor, John Baldacci, signed the gay-marriage bill in May. (See a visual history of gay rights in America...
...courts have demanded equal marriage rights for gays has grown. But those same cases have also helped fuel opponents, who say gay marriage is being foisted upon the U.S. by out-of-touch judges. In order to counter that argument, Bonauto and other gay-marriage activists in Maine who began organizing to press for gay marriage there decided to avoid taking the issue to court. Instead, they set about electing lawmakers who were friendly to their cause two years ago, and this year successfully convinced the legislature to become the nation's first to establish gay marriage by statute, rather...