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...future of both political parties is based on the enthusiasm of young staffers like Jennings. "But where is Karl Rove?" Durbin continued, referring to President George Bush's top political aide who was also subpoenaed but refused to appear today, citing executive privilege. "Why is he hiding behind the curtain? Why does he throw another young staffer like...
...wonderful adventure. Toward the end of Half-Blood Prince, when Hermione turns up yet another clue, Harry thinks: "He did not feel the way he had so often felt before, excited, curious, burning to get to the bottom of a mystery." That sparkly wonderment is gone. As the curtain rises on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Scholastic; 759 pages), all Harry's parents and parent-figures - Sirius and Dumbledore - are dead. He's quit school, and he's got a job to do, picking up the shards of Voldemort's shattered soul. Any soft adult buffer between...
First of Many. In her travels as First Lady, Mrs. Johnson has aimed to "pull back the curtain" by publicizing little-known community programs for self-help and improvement around the U.S. Some think she did all that-and more...
Eighteen years from now an old curtain will rise to expose a production that will pave the path for African and European unification once again. The deep blue color of the Mediterranean Sea will not lose a twinkle, the Strait of Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems...
...from the clothes he wore when arrested were caught on the rifle butt. That morning he had brought a long, thin package to work from the house in Irving where he spent weekends with Marina. He explained to the co-worker who gave him a ride that it contained curtain rods for his Dallas apartment, even though his flat had a full...