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...week before, joked with reporters that "I thought it was the appropriate time to come out." While he was quick to insist yet again that he had all the firepower he needed and could walk into the Oval Office any time he wanted?"I have the President's ear," he said?he also said flat out that he didn't have "technical operational authority" to do much of anything. In his private briefings with lawmakers from both parties, "nobody was swept off their feet," a Democratic lawmaker told TIME. "He was asked what his first priority was, and there...
...before. Sunday night, within a span of twenty minutes, I was on the phone to many people: my wife in Ethiopia (we have not been together since I left Peshawar for meetings in the U.S. on September 6th); my boss in New York City (a much-needed ear for my need to vent); my mother on a Wisconsin farm (as the past Tanzanian President Nyeri said, "you are always a child as long as your mother is alive"); and a journalist from a leading U.S. newspaper (I am quickly learning what to say and what...
...asked distractedly, pulling a headphone an inch off my ear...
...remembered well. Seven years ago, my sister, two years of teenage territorial exploration ahead of me, stuck a pair of headphones in my ear and told me to listen. She wanted me to tell her what I thought the song was about; I was 11 and couldn’t say the word “rape.” The album was Amos’s Little Earthquakes, and the song was “Me and a Gun,” an a capella recollection of Amos’ rape at gunpoint. When I was in seventh grade...
AILING. RUSH LIMBAUGH, 50, conservative radio commentator; from a rare inner-ear ailment that has rendered him virtually deaf. Limbaugh told his 20 million listeners that he planned to continue to broadcast--if necessary, without callers. "All I've lost is my ability to hear," he said. "It doesn't mean I've lost my ability to communicate...