Word: calling
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...thing wrapped up before he takes command of the next Congress in January. Representative Billy Tauzin, one of Livingston's fellow Louisiana Republicans, says, "He'd like to see the preoccupation with scandal end." Who wouldn't? But not everyone in Washington is ready yet to call it quits...
...children were sired by one of Jefferson's wayward nephews. Now that the DNA tests have eliminated that possibility, they are suggesting there were other male Jeffersons who could have fathered Hemings' children. Jefferson biographer Joseph Ellis discounts this, saying circumstances bolster Madison's link to Jefferson and even call into question the nullification of the Thomas lineage. At any rate, the clan may have no choice but to meet the rest of the family: the association holds a barbecue every spring, and several of the Hemings kin say they just might drop by next year...
...Denver. But those names are pushing beers, and when it comes to beer and sports, the connection is so primally made that I can't get worked up over it. And don't talk to me about Wrigley Field, either. That was the man's name, after all. Call the place Juicy Fruit Park, and then I'll worry...
Joshua Cooper Ramo, who oversaw our coverage of the tussle with Saddam, has been editing TIME's World section for six weeks, and so far he loves it. "The hours are lethal, but it's a blast to go to bed talking to Tokyo and wake up to a call from Belgrade," he says. Ramo, who also edits TIME Digital, our bimonthly supplement about technology, says the joy of covering international news comes from marrying the best reporting with sharp thinking and memorable writing. "Our value is in helping people understand how and why the world is changing...
...Wedding Singer, in which he plays a borderline grownup, but Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore and the new film) is about a nerdy sociopath who learns to channel his rage into an acceptable format: winning a spelling bee, playing golf or tackling football players. "You don't have what they call the social skills," he is told in The Waterboy; that is Sandler's gimmick and, for many, his charm. The plot is a competition for which our hero is utterly unqualified but which he always wins, over some smarmy exemplar of the status quo and in a climax tinged with...