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Sara Hansard, 49, a journalist from Arlington, Va., adopted a 1 1/2-year-old girl from China more than two years ago. She faced the strong objection of her mother, "who always imagined me getting married and having kids the normal way." Mom has come around, but since she lives in an assisted-living facility 90 miles away, she can't be much help. So Sara has organized an informal network of single moms in her area, who are on call to baby-sit in emergencies and who trade child-rearing tips...
...first rule for a journalist in this situation is to say or do whatever you have to to get out of jail. Then make a beeline for the airport and get out of the country...
Paul Eddy has spent 25 years as a journalist, both as a reporter for the London Sunday Times and as editor of that paper's much acclaimed Insight investigative team. He has also co-authored six nonfiction books with such titles as The Cocaine Wars and War in the Falklands. If truth is stranger than fiction, then Eddy has clearly witnessed firsthand a lot of strange stuff. Why then has he now decided to write fiction? Has he seen some things it would be prudent to disguise...
...remember. He was very chatty. He asked a lot of questions. I think my friend asked him what book he was reading and he said it was a book about Africa. I asked him what he did for a living and he said he was a journalist. He introduced himself as Lance (no last name). I then asked where he worked and he said he's worked for Time magazine for the past 7 years. He claimed he was studying this book because he was going to Africa in October for a story and was then to take vacation afterwards...
...essentially promised that if TV doesn't clean itself up, the government will do the job for it. On ABC, former Clinton aide George Stephanopoulos - who we're sure has become an entirely impartial observer in the, what, three minutes he's been a journalist - notified us that the Gore camp is thrilled with the bump Lieberman has given the campaign, which evidently is noticeable everywhere but in the polls. Larry King gushingly congratulated Lieberman's mother, Marcia (who looks fantastic at 85) signing off, "Shalom." (Joseph Lieberman - here's an interesting bit of political trivia - is apparently...