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...about your relationship with Joe Scarborough. We have a great time. It feels just like growing up with my brothers, because we enjoy the same things, like a really good conversation. Once in a while, though, it gets a little rough. When the show started, we had not met each other. We pretty much got to know each other on the air. We are fighting - we're getting into it - and kind of discovering whatever friction exists over certain stories and throwing it all out there on the table for better or for worse...
...Even before the Christmas bomb plot grabbed the political spotlight, the Administration was struggling with that dilemma. Senior national-security officials met in mid-December to figure out what to do with the 90-odd Yemeni prisoners who make up the largest contingent of the 200 or so remaining detainees at the offshore facility. A special task force set up a year ago concluded last fall that the U.S. doesn't have sufficient evidence to successfully prosecute any of the Yemenis in either civilian or military courts. Still, the task force concluded, about half of the prisoners are devoted members...
...Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage (Viking; 285 pages), in which she is a vehemently wary second-time bride, due to be dragged down the aisle by Uncle Sam's immigration henchmen, who will otherwise toss her beloved, Brazilian-born "Felipe," as she calls the older man she met in the last section of EPL, out of the U.S. for good. They hadn't planned to marry. Like Gilbert, Felipe had endured a hard divorce, and they were content to be "lifers" together. But a helpful Homeland Security officer prescribes marriage as the only certain way out of Felipe...
...ALSPAC parents and kids have undergone extensive medical and psychological testing every year since. Recently, I met an ALSPAC baby, Tom Gibbs, who is now a sturdy 17-year-old. I accompanied him as clinicians measured his height (178 cm, or 5 ft. 8 in., not including spiked blond hair), the bone density of his left femur (1.3 g/sq cm, which is above average) and a host of other physical traits...
...when the two schools met on Jan. 2, it was Harvard who had the best player on the court: Jeremy S. Lin '10, whom Kolloen apparently hadn't heard of. “Had I been a better blogger,” he conceded, “I would’ve noticed that Harvard has a player named Jeremy Lin who is a pretty talented basketball player—and at this moment a better one than Garcia...