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...recognized the man sitting at the next table. She couldn't place his name, but she had seen his boyish face and mop-top hair on TV, and she knew he was running for President. Now he was right beside her, talking to a reporter at a cafe in Fort Dodge, Iowa. So Radford interrupted him, and John Kasich, the 46-year-old Republican Congressman from Ohio, stopped quartering his French toast to listen to her. A widow with an eye infection, Radford, 73, told Kasich she was struggling every month to pay for her prescriptions. One cost...
Hands thrust deeply into our pockets, we silently traversed a dilapidated alley as the sky darkened and ware-houses loomed ominously on either side. It began to drizzle, and I realized I had been shivering since we crossed the Fort Point Channel. The silence bore down on me, and I glanced at my younger brother. I coughed, exhaling a steamy breath, and noticed that the streetlights made a jagged series of shadows on the adjacent building as we walked. I had the strange feeling that we were in, well, an underground film...
...HEAR A MILLION? It is not often that a new bird is discovered. It is even rarer to get the chance to attach your moniker to it. But in Fort Worth next month, the Texas state office of the National Audubon Society will auction the right to bestow the species name on a bright-orange-chested antshrike discovered in the jungles of Brazil. Bids start at $200,000. No Ashleys or Trumps, please...
Besides training at Fort Benning in Georgia, Antaki spent 12 months in the Republic of Korea...
...firing-on-Fort-Sumter of this little war came when Christopher Hitchens, a lefty Brit who writes for Vanity Fair and the Nation, signed an affidavit against his old friend Sidney Blumenthal, a presidential aide and former political writer who has worked for the New Yorker and the New Republic. Hitchens told congressional investigators that Blumenthal, who left journalism two years ago for the White House, had called Monica Lewinsky a "stalker" at a social lunch last March. It could be a big deal if it helps prove Blumenthal lied under oath when he told impeachment investigators he didn...