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...gush down the rocky Himalayas - from the Ramganga in the western Himalayas to the Teesta in the east - and teem with the prized game. Living in fast-flowing currents, the mahseer is a ferocious giant - built to ascend the roaring rapids at spawning time - and gives sportfishermen a tough fight. Encounters with 40-pounders (18 kg) are commonplace and stories abound of injured casting arms and painful sinews...
...towns in Minnesota, but that makes Al Franken just more excited to parade the hell out of the place. He's in a parking lot, standing near floats for a pro-life organization and two different Christian youth groups, and he is bouncing and clapping like Ali before a fight. Once he is given the signal to march, he's at it full force. When he catches someone looking him over, he throws both hands in the air, does a funny foot-flail-in-place thing, turns around and jogs across the street until he's in front...
...perfectly empathetic, nodding and using the language of recovery like someone mistakenly doing a serious, dramatic reading of his 12-step Saturday Night Live character, Stuart Smalley. After they finish, Franken looks up and says, "Thanks for inspiring me. If I'm in the Senate, I'll fight for this stuff. Because ..." And then he stops and looks away, trying not to cry. It's silent for a minute, and then one of the women quietly says, "You've got my vote." To which Franken says, "That's why I said it." And at that moment, Franken is an unbeatable...
When asked whether she'd consider entering Hong Kong politics, Chan quickly shakes her head. The vegan philosophy major has no appetite for the cynicism and compromises that make up political life, and would prefer to keep her ideals intact. "I'll always fight for what I care about," she says, and hopes, in the meantime, that she can use her 15 minutes to help other activists. After being booted out off the equestrian event, Chan passed on three tickets - and her much-photographed Tibetan flag - to members of Students for a Free Tibet, who managed to wave it around...
...Secretary Robert Gates a day later. While Bush promised that the U.S. military would rush relief supplies to Georgia and warned the Russians that Washington expected them to retreat from Georgian territory, Gates was careful to make clear that the U.S. has no desire to get involved in the fight between the Russian bully and its Georgian victim. "I don't see any prospect for the use of military force by the United States in this situation," Gates told reporters Thursday. "Is that clear enough...