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...news that Nadya Suleman, also known as the villainous-sounding Octomom, had signed a deal to do a TV show was met with the full spectrum of reactions, from "Haven't we/they suffered enough?" to "Well, that was inevitable" to "I'd rather put my eyes out with claw hammers." But as it turns out, it's unlikely the Suleman brood will be bringing their brand of family entertainment to Stateside TV sets anytime soon. (See the top 10 reality shows...
...secret. Indeed, the Treasury Secretary told reporters that, far from an obsession about whether the U.S. was going to reflate its way out of trouble (and debase its currency in the process), the issue didn't even come up in his meetings on Monday. "I actually haven't been [asked about it]," Geithner said, perhaps chafing a bit at the presumption that the U.S. needs to reassure the Chinese of its creditworthiness. "The economic leadership here," he continued, "has a very sophisticated understanding about where we are and what we are doing. We are going to have to bring down...
...local Communist Party discipline office are investigating allegations that the company originally hired to dig the tunnel subcontracted the work to an unqualified firm while pocketing a portion of the funding. "There's always money and corruption involved," grumbles a farmer named Wang who lives nearby. Authorities haven't completed their investigations, but there's no denying the delays. A banner at the mouth of the tunnel announces a completion date of October 2008. "This project has been a disaster for us," says Wang. "We would be lucky to have it done by this October...
...caveats, the hum of the machay will grow louder in Pakistani skies this summer. The arrival of more U.S. troops in Afghanistan will make it all the more important to deprive al-Qaeda and the Taliban of their safe haven in Pakistan. Obama is widely expected to authorize a broadening of the drone attack to include the southwestern Pakistani province of Baluchistan and its capital, Quetta, where the Taliban high command is thought to be hiding...
...show. The two had a four-hour first date at Café Pamplona and spent nearly all their time together while Aggarwal finished his master’s degree. When he graduated that spring, they continued to see each other long-distance. Kumar made frequent trips to New Haven, where Aggarwal is now conducting a residency at Yale to become a psychiatrist. “I should be the Greyhound or the Amtrak brand ambassador,” Kumar said. This spring, with Kumar’s friends gathered at Small Plates for tea, Aggarwal proposed—though Kumar...