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...thinks Jeremy's going to give her The Ring at dinner this evening, but he gives her earrings instead. Impatient to tie a comfortable knot, she resolves to follow him to a business trip to Dublin, where, as Irish tradition supposedly has it, a woman may propose to a man on Leap Year Day - Feb. 29, once every four years. But the plane she takes is rerouted to Wales, and she must travel by turbulent boat, crowded bus, creaky old Renault, unpredictable train and occasionally on foot to reach her beau. Meanwhile she discovers true love in the form...
...just a kid trying to grow up. It did become the norm that our time together - and I put that in quotes - would be on Air Force One, or in Tunisia, or in China, or at Camp David, because he was so incredibly busy. I mean, this was a man who left the house at 5 a.m., and stayed at work until 11 at night, for four years. And that was when he was in the United States. Our time together was defined differently than other families...
...reduction in drinking for this group could easily move them out of the risky-drinking range and into the range that is believed to have neutral or even potentially positive health consequences. For example, cutting back from 21 drinks a week to 14 puts a man in the range that is considered moderate by U.S.-government guidelines. For women, the recommendation is no more than seven drinks per week. "It's a way to get people to think about drinking and motivate them to change if they think they are drinking too much," says Cunningham...
...disclose her financial interest in a 2008 business deal that helped launch the café. The report alleged that Iris Robinson - then age 59 and, like her husband, a well-known politician in Northern Ireland - had obtained $80,000 from two property developers for a 19-year-old man, Kirk McCambley, with whom she had been having an affair. According to the report, the teenager allegedly used most of the money to set up the café but saved $8,000 to give back to his lover, the appropriately named Mrs. Robinson. (See the top 10 scandals...
...last year, officials determined that 40 to 50 of those detainees were safe to send back to Yemen for eventual release, but last month it was decided to keep them at Gitmo. Why? Because, said a State Department official, "We all took a look at Yemen and said, Oh, man, this stinks. Normally, when you repatriate [detainees] to a government that is competent, they keep an eye on them. In Yemen, the government has less capacity [to do so]. We'd be negligent if we were ignoring that." And the Administration hasn't. Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John...