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...met Kenzer at a friend's Christmas brunch. Four years of living in Los Angeles, it turns out, does not begin to prepare you for the answers you get to the question "What do you do for a living?" Compared with "psychic," "mobile spray tanner" and "Hugh Hefner's third girlfriend," writing about yourself for a newsmagazine seems totally legitimate...
...MindTo have coffee with Lily (a pseudonym), you wouldn't get much sense of how she has suffered. She is 40 but could pass for 30. She has blue eyes and long blond hair that falls across her shoulders in slightly curly tendrils. On the December day we met at a diner outside Seattle, she wore a pink wool cap pulled down tight and an Adidas jumper zipped all the way. She was friendly but not terribly expressive, and she carried an aura of self-protection...
...met Suzman for tea in the lush garden of her Johannesburg home last June. She was, she said, "slowly fading away," with tinnitus in her ears making her head "ring like a church bell." But she was still feisty and outspoken, especially on the ANC. The party had failed to transform the lives of black South Africans, she argued--"The vast majority have been left behind"--while its leader and the likely next President, Jacob Zuma, "just tells people what they want to hear." Not an accusation ever leveled at Suzman...
Obama and Sunstein first met on the faculty at the University of Chicago Law School and have forged a close friendship since then. Sunstein, who left Chicago for Harvard last year, advised Obama on legal matters throughout his campaign. In fact, Sunstein met his current wife, Harvard Kennedy School professor Samantha Power, while both were advising the Obama campaign...
...plan that could bypass the Republican vote and, with a combination of spending cuts and tax hikes on sales, gas and income, melt the deficit by $18 billion. However, this week Schwarzenegger rejected the plan, saying his demands, like limiting environmental protections on public-works construction, were not met, and the Republicans filed a suit in state appeals court in an effort to block this sort of majority-vote proposal from occurring again. The pressure is on for the parties to quickly come up with a working budget before the well runs dry in February. In the meantime...