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...poor thing,” they nod, “I’m so sorry you have to go through that.” This is probably my favorite, given that it’s the most pity I’ve gotten since Hubert, the hermit crab that illegally adopted my Grays room as residence for three months, passed away in January.The third response I’ve received is complete disinterest. A “hmph” or dismissive nod might indicate a slight acknowledgement of the hassle of getting...
...Hubert Humphrey, in 1968, was the last Democrat to win his party's nomination without winning the most votes in the primaries. Most politicians tend to be cautious, straitlaced people. Confronted by the raging television torrent, by the strange new theatrics of public performance, which makes every last word or handshake a potentially career-threatening experience, they sought creative help to navigate the waters. And so, the pollster-consultant industrial complex was born. By 1976, the process had been turned upside down. A politician most Americans had never heard of-Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia-won the Democratic nomination...
...Monday, the deputy, Gilberto San Miguel Jr., has also gotten statements from Cheney?s hunting partner Pamela Willeford, the U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Lichtenstein, ranch owner Katharine Armstrong and her sister Sarita Armstrong Hixon, as well as two outriders helping with the hunt-Jerry and Oscar Medellin. Bo Hubert, the hunt guide, is to give his version of events to deputies on Friday. None of their affidavits will be released by the sheriff?s department, however...
...covey. After the group shot at the first covey, he and Pamela Willeford proceeded to the second covey because Harry Whittington had walked approximately 100 yards from the first location," the report says. It?s unclear from the report, but it seems as if Medellin and guide Bo Hubert were with the Vice President. "There was a single bird that flew behind him and he followed the bird by line of sight in a counter-clockwise direction, not realizing Harry Whittington had walked up from behind and had positioned himself approximately 30 yards to the west of him," according...
...1960s, a new species of fish, the Nile perch, was introduced in Lake Victoria, Africa’s largest. In the mid-1990s, Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper went to the shores of the lake, in Tanzania, to film how the species, now one of the country’s main exports, had obliterated all others in the lake and even became cannibalistic. In the mid-2000s, the film “Darwin’s Nightmare” opened at the Venice Film Festival, shocked audiences worldwide, and has since been nominated as Best Documentary at the Academy Awards...