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...Altmire is in a kind of political no-man's-land. At a local event shortly after he voted for a timeline to withdraw troops from Iraq, he was confronted by a constituent who was angry that Democrats hadn't put more pressure on Bush. "He asked why he'd bothered to vote for me, since I was clearly another rubber stamp for Bush," the Congressman recalls. Not three feet away, a woman who opposed the timeline jumped into the conversation. She argued that he was just a rubber stamp for Pelosi. "The crowd laughed when they heard...
...like health care and global warming." And while Biden can talk with some authority and insight about almost any issue, it is Iraq that is consuming him. At his next house party, he devoted his entire speech-a far more focused effort-to the war. It was something I hadn't seen this year; most candidates, in both parties, try to rid themselves of Iraq in a sentence or two. Not Biden. "We have all sorts of problems and opportunities, but there's a big boulder sitting in the middle of the road-it's Iraq," he told the crowd...
...they hadn't been invited to El Bulli, the Flögels' dinner there would have set them back nearly $500. By the end of their meal, Franziska, an architect, and Gerhard, a civil engineer, had succumbed to Adrià's peculiar magic. "I was astonished the whole time I was eating," says Francisca. Her husband added: "This is a new way to create taste. When you're here, it's clear that it's art." Perhaps. But by the time Adrià's diners have worked their way through those 33 dishes, such abstract questions tend to fade into...
...Jerry Jeff Walker had never driven you down to Key West, what would you be doing now and where would you be doing it? -Zach Cato in Madisonville, KentuckyIf Jerry Jeff hadn't driven me to Key West, I would have gone anyway. It was definitely on my radar. I had been there in college and had been very, very much acquainted with the literary history of Key West. Key West didn't have really much musical history then-it was much more of a literary history, and a history of a really interesting, intriguing place...
...Aaron, at age 34, hit 29 home runs. After that season, baseball lowered the pitching mound, from 15 in. to 10 in. Advantage, hitters. Over the next five years, Aaron averaged 41 homers. An incredible feat, but it's fair to ask, What would have happened if the mound hadn't been lowered? Bottom line: every era is imperfect. Bonds' is the steroid...