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Coming home late Wednesday night, I ran into a friend in the Winthrop courtyard. It was cold and very clear. Orion, one of three constellations I can identify, hung in the southwestern sky, his belt and sword bright. We could see our breath. I started to push my friend on the tire swing, and he asked whether I knew “Dover Beach...
...side a table that is usually freckled with jigsaw pieces. It was a few days after New Year's in 2003. The President had been out clearing cedar, and Laura Bush was lying on a sofa reading, or at least pretending to. That Christmas holiday was a deep breath between the 2002 midterm elections and the walk-up to the war in Iraq. Karl Rove, chief strategist for the Bush re-election campaign, arrived at the house with his faded blue canvas briefcase in hand. He had come to help put together a different kind of puzzle...
...computer network. But two House Republican committee chairmen decided to croak the bill on the weekend before Thanksgiving--in large part because the reform was opposed by the Pentagon, which controls 80% of the intelligence budget. An effort is being made to revive it, but don't hold your breath...
...while. Your chest heaves. Nada. Your body tries again. Still nothing. Then, if you're lucky, your brain kicks in and sends out the alarm: without oxygen, it will starve. So your reflexes get your body to rouse; there's a snuffling, wheezing and then a big intake of breath. And then back to normal breathing--or more snoring--until the cycle starts again. And all the while, you're fast asleep, blissfully unaware that anything is going...
...you…to escort you on a trip, which I took last Christmas…into Fallujah and Baghdad and I’ll show you around. When we return, make all the fun you want.”). At one point, he simply mumbled under his breath that he can’t understand people not voting in the upcoming election...