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...Poker may be sedentary, but it is no less competitive. Obama played most regularly as an Illinois state senator in the late 1990s. The legislature met in Springfield, which had little to recommend it after hours, except on Wednesday nights, when "The Committee Meeting," as it was nicknamed, convened in state senator Terry Link's basement. Obama and fellow senators made up the "core four." The game began at 7 p.m. and often lasted until 2 a.m. There were pizza and chips, a fridge full of beer, and enough cigars for a smoke-filled room. Obama usually showed...
...This view was shared by several European officials I met at a conference of terrorism experts in Florence in May, a few days after bin Laden's most recent Internet postings. The officials told me they've found no evidence of al-Qaeda operations in their countries. If bin Laden has any role in the jihad, say the Europeans, it is merely as an icon. Alain Grignard, Belgium's top terrorism investigator, says bin Laden is now a "Robin Hood figure; 100 people are inspired by him, but very few respond to do what he wants...
...Meet P.D., wearer of sunglasses indoors and purveyor of such inscrutable bits of wisdom as "you can't shit a shitter." P.D. was one of the first interns I met. I arrived a week late to the program, and in the meantime, P.D. had elected himself the de facto social chair our intern class, organizing happy hours at local bars several nights a week. P.D. lives on the Upper East Side, which he says is one of the only four neighborhoods that exist in Manhattan. (The others are the Upper West Side, Midtown, and the Village.) Most days, P.D. dresses...
...Orleans family that founded a successful commodities trading firm. Throughout his life, he has consistently fallen short in his attempts to live up to that legacy, and consistently tried to make up for the difference by pretending. As he wrote earlier this year, "Ever since I can remember, I met people everywhere that have told me they know my family either directly or by reputation. I cheated my investors because I was afraid to admit my failure. I did not want the world to think I was not good enough and I did not want my family...
...families of Regev and Goldwasser also kept up a steady campaign in Israel and abroad, pressing Olmert for action on the return of the two soldiers. On Sunday, after the cabinet announced that it would exchange prisoners with Hizballah, Olmert met personally with the Regev and Goldwasser families, who expressed their approval of the cabinet decision and said they expected a swift conclusion to the deal. Israeli leaders are hoping to oblige the families, but the timing is now up to Hizballah chief Hassan Nasrallah, who may drag the process out for weeks, or even months, say Israelis. Olmert...