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...splendid isolation, obstructing constructive ideas for bringing European countries together. His position helped create a Europe in crisis, searching for its identity as the constitution was rejected. So while I am sad to see Blair go, I am sad mostly for what he could have been: a founding father of a secular, democratic and prosperous union of European peoples. It was not to be. Steve Maertens, Ostend, Belgium...
Lindsay Lohan may be facing time for alleged DUI and drug possession, but help is on the way. Sort of. Errant father Michael Lohan told the New York POST: "I'm meeting with my parole officer tomorrow to ask permission to go ... have a heart-to-heart with my daughter. Who else is going to step to the plate?" SCORE...
...calendar with a photograph of an old stone schoolhouse in Beit Nabala, his ancestral village. "The water in Beit Nabala was sweet, and the earth was so rich that beans grew overnight like magic," he marvels. Has Omar ever visited his old village home? "No," he replies sadly. "My father went back once, in 1973. He went to our house, and some Jews answered. They asked my father, 'What are you doing?' He replied, 'This house used to be mine.' The Jews said, 'You have nothing to do here. Go away!'" After that snub, Omar's father never returned...
...House. Dingell recalls hunting rats "as big as cats" with an air rifle in the Capitol basement, and Franklin D. Roosevelt inscribed a photograph to him--"my friend"--around the time that Dingell was a 12-year-old congressional page. He insists that he never planned to occupy his father's seat, but the senior Dingell's death in office left a humming political machine leaderless and important goals unmet...
Dingell's victory in a special election was the first of 27 consecutive blowouts (some, he insists, harder than others). Unlike his father, Big John was physically imposing, and he filled his office walls with hunting trophies; visitors plead their cases under the cold gaze of Dingell kills. He honored his father by pushing for national health insurance and was chosen in 1965 to wield the gavel when the House passed Medicare...