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...think any one can prepare for this role," says Nugen, who has foregone a personal life in favor of 16-hour works days since he was dispatched to Denver in June soon after Obama cinched the nomination. "It's a lot of long hours, seven days a week, but, you know what? You're so busy you don't realize how crazy it is and it's just getting crazier, so..." and here Nugen trails off and there's a long pause as if he's counting down the list of all the things he has to get done...
...dashed from Concourse B to Concourse A, which in Albuquerque is about 11 yards. There, I found the usual mass of irritated, exhausted travelers preparing, after a three-hour delay, to board. They must have wondered why I was smiling. We filed onto the plane - about 120 grumpy people, plus me. I even got an aisle seat, and not next to the bathroom, either...
...turned to dusk, we soared over the strange flatlands of Eastern New Mexico and West Texas, then landed with a big bump and pulled into our gate at DFW about 8 p.m. Now I steeled myself for a two-hour layover, hoped I'd at least make it home by midnight. As we filed out of the jetway, I glanced at a departures monitor and was shocked to find not one but two American flights to Kansas City - and the first one was preparing to board...
...That time was not wasted," David Corker, Gadd's attorney, said. "It enabled Mr. Gadd and others to put into practice a plan for his proper and safe arrival here." Fearing that he could be attacked or murdered, Gadd has requested 24-hour police protection...
Ambassador Lasha Zhvania is a senior Georgian official. One morning this week, he was pacing back and forth at a Russian military checkpoint just outside the war torn city of Gori, talking angrily on his mobile telephone . For more than two hours he had been attempting to escort a delegation of European officials to Gori from the capital Tbilisi. A journey that ordinarily should take 40 minutes was already into its third hour. "I am the foreign relations committee chairman in the Georgian Parliament and it just took us 40 minutes to go a few meters," he told...