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...whom he refuses to name. "He came up behind me and kind of slapped my back and said, 'Good job, Jonathan,' and he handed me two bucks," Paton says. "I just felt completely humiliated. I went home back to my apartment, and I was just sitting there in my boxer shorts watching TV late at night and an Army ad came on. I thought, 'You know, I really need a change, something that will challenge...
...Actually, I wasn?t naked: I was wearing socks. But I was wringing out my rain-soaked boxer briefs and nervously eying the door; just beyond toiled young women from the kitchens, helping prepare dinner. On the theory that I should make some noise so no one would open the door, I began to sing, but for some reason all I could think of was ?Mary Had a Little Lamb.? At which point the door opened onto this view - a nearly nude 35-year-old man holding his wet underwear. Before I caught a glimpse of the person...
...Senator Barbara Boxer, the California Democrat, gives a keynote speech, then schmoozes in the blogger media room. She fields their questions gamely though at times she sounds less like she?s talking to anything remotely like the press than she is talking to a group of possibly hostile foreign nationals. ?You people,? she says a lot. ?That?s how you can help,? she asserts several times, though she doesn?t seem positive about it. Richardson and Clark talk to their audiences in the same cautiously flattering way, making self-deprecating but pat references to how old and out of touch...
Burnham wasn't the only one. The idea that America must act proactively against its enemies, or else grow inexorably weaker, was a staple of the cold war right. "Like the boxer who refuses to throw a punch," warned Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, "the defense-bound nation will be cut down sooner or later." In the 1960s, with China rushing toward the Bomb, preventive war was proposed again...
...mother, who used negotiation as her primary disciplinary tool, but plenty for his father, who spanked him once--memorably. Gussman was 5 when he played in a forbidden swamp near his home in Stoneham, Mass. "I had scared him half to death," says Gussman of his father, an ex-boxer. "He spanked me right then and there...