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...renewed interest in stamps gave me an idea. At a time of polarized politics in America, the U.S. Postal Service should issue a pair of stamps honoring two Commerce Secretaries who died before their time and who each embodied what?s best about red- and blue-state America. I'm thinking of Malcolm Baldridge, who served under Ronald Reagan and died in a horseback riding accident in 1987, and Ron Brown, the former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who served under Bill Clinton and died in a plane crash while trying to promote economic development in the Balkans during...
...girl clicked right away with her adoptive dad Stuart, now 39 and a Baptist minister. Soon after she moved in, they painted her bedroom her favorite color--sky blue. And after school, Stuart would talk with her about her day. "It was me and Dad all day, every day," says SaBreena, who never met her biological father. Getting along with her new mom Tina, a state clerical worker, also 39, was harder. Says SaBreena: "We didn't have anything to say to each other. The only time we would talk was about chores." Says Tina: "Dad was the friend...
...looking for the novelist Joseph Finder in a tony Manhattan restaurant, ignore the artsy-looking, bearded fellow slouching in the corner and search instead for the man in full executive armor: tailored wool blazer, black Armani tie and blue Joseph Abboud shirt. Finder, 47, uses that camouflage to slip in and out of the corporate environment, where he researches gripping thrillers set among the world of executive suites and water coolers. "Joseph Finder is doing for the business thriller what John le Carré did for the spy thriller," says Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point, "moving it from...
...guarantee a deposit of up to $25 million with FDIC. Citibank can get you up to $100,000. We're safer; we have higher rates. Compare us to anybody--black, blue, green or purple--let's see how things line...
...well in class, pleasing the teacher. There is an endearing self-confidence in how compactly her cocoa-brown roundnesses fill her clot! hes, which today are patched and sequinned jeans, worn pale where she sits, and a ribbed magenta shorty top both lower and higher than it should be. Blue plastic barrettes pull her glistening hair back as straight as it will go; the plump edge of her right ear holds along its crimp a row of little silver rings. She sings in assembly programs, songs of Jesus or sexual longing, both topics abhorrent to Ahmad. Yet he is pleased...