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...also feels a sense of responsibility for the intense scrutiny and radical life changes that have befallen Palin and her family. Thousands of people came to the Pima County Fairgrounds, many of them apparently there to see Palin rather than the actual candidate--something Cindy McCain highlighted in her brief remarks, to nervous laughter. Notably, all the cable news networks (Fox News included) cut away from live coverage once Palin had concluded her remarks and McCain began...
...tame affair, mostly vague speeches about freedom and the evils of Washington. But the rhetoric was at times deviant and downright ugly: placards and T-shirts reading "Send Obuma [sic] back to Kenya" and "Pelosi is the White House's new Monica" were visible during Palin's brief speech, and she made no effort to censure their owners. "We're not going to sit down and shut up," she told the cheering crowd. "Thank you for standing up." The events in Arizona and Nevada failed to mask the widening splits in Palin's party about tactics and direction. One sign...
...carrying Ricketts arrived at Dover Air Force Base on March 2. (The body of Specialist Ian Gelig, also killed in Afghanistan, arrived on the same plane.) Dover is the first stop for dead soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, and their families are often on hand to attend a brief, solemn ceremony as the flag-wrapped cases are removed from the plane and brought to the mortuary. The ban on media coverage of these transfers, in place during the Bush Administration, was lifted in February 2009, when Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ruled it should be up to the families...
...annual event, which takes place at hospitals, community centers, and universities around the country, requires individuals to fill out a brief survey about their alcohol use and consult privately with a health professional about their responses...
...begun to thrive, while the other 800 million suffer with growing resentment from chronic poverty and live without electricity, roads, hospitals, proper sanitation or clean water - the classic breeding ground for left-wing extremist violence. As Mao himself prescribed in 1927, "It's necessary to bring about a brief reign of terror in every rural area ... To right a wrong it is necessary to exceed the proper limit." Naxalism, as Indian Maoism is also called - after a village named Naxalbari at the movement's origins - has rapidly outstripped the insurgencies in Jammu and Kashmir and northeast India. Maoists have...