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...Mealer, an American, was a young freelance reporter based in Nairobi when he was first sent to the D.R.C. by the AP in 2003. The job repeatedly put him on the front line - his book opens with a long description of a brutal gun battle between two tribal militia groups in the eastern town of Bunia. It then moves to the capital, Kinshasa, where Mealer was posted by the Associated Press wire agency in 2004, and covers the bumpy transition from war to peace. After that, it's back to more fighting in the east, before Mealer embarks...
Before our swim meets, my high school swim coach would often say, “Close your eyes and just imagine.” Imagine crouching low on the starting blocks as you wait for the starting gun. Imagine standing on the winners’ platform with your medal draped around your neck. If it’s possible now in your mind, he’d tell us, it’s possible in the pool...
...addition to our problems on the international front, domestic policy under the Bush administration has been horribly misguided—from the death penalty to gay marriage to gun laws. The inhumane practice of lethal injection and other forms of capital punishment are still tolerated, and the Supreme Court has yet to ban what is effectively state-sanctioned murder. The constitutional right to marry and the right to equal protection under the law are still denied to same-sex couples in the majority of states (with notable exceptions in Massachusetts, and more recently, California). High school shootings and other gun...
Both candidates have taken on the main issues that concern Montanans: high gas prices and gun rights. In the state, driving 100 miles daily to hold down a blue-collar job is not unusual, and gas prices have hit especially hard. Senator Clinton said Congress needed to investigate speculation in the oil markets, promising to "rein in" the excesses of the major oil companies. Obama, for his part, promised to "spend $150 billion over 10 years investing in clean and renewable energy." He also said he plans a $1,000 tax break to help middle-income families pay gasoline...
...gun control, too, the candidates are sounding like Montanans. Obama told a Great Falls audience last Friday, "I believe in the rights of hunters and sportsmen." Word came to the state on Saturday via a press conference call that Clinton has softened her hard line against handguns, retracting her earlier support for tight national restrictions (though she still favors registration and licensing of pistols in New York State...