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...eve of his inauguration, Summers’ family members had several words of wisdom for the new president...
...fantasy, or just by cold feet, isn’t quite clear). In this pursuit, the outcome of which should be pretty obvious if you’ve ever seen a movie with a guy and a girl, each are aided by a Funny Best Friend. Beckinsale drags along Eve (Molly Shannon, late of “Saturday Night Live”) and Cusack enlists Dean (Jeremy Piven, who struck a nice chemistry with Cusack in Grosse Pointe Blank). Both provide solid support, though I wish that they existed as more than just sounding boards/agents to further the plot, given...
...eve of a very different test of this nation’s willingness to defend its values at any cost, a Democrat by the name of Stephen Douglas approached Republican Abraham Lincoln with the words, “Partisan feeling must yield to patriotism. I’m with you, Mr. President, and God bless you.” The two were hardly friends, and yet there are times when the most bitter of political foes become brothers allied against a common enemy...
...following a failed car bomb attempt in Lille on the eve of a G7 summit there, French cops picked up two ethnic-Arab suspects, one of whom cracked under questioning and revealed the true nature of "gang of Roubaix." The group was in fact a collection of Muslim militants (most of them white French converts) who had been radicalized during visits to Bosnia. Robbery was used to finance arms purchases, and to create false ID documents to facilitate the movement of Islamist terrorists transiting France. The group had recruited men for their "holy war," and had staged attacks when instructed...
...White. He has been passing out money ever since he had any. On Christmas Eve 1952, he had two young children and just $1,100 in the bank. Yet he wrote checks totaling $700 to charities. In 1958--then with six children--he dropped $2,000 in the collection basket at St. Bernard's parish in Newton, Mass. The gift more than doubled the parish's take that week...