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REINSTATED Former Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick, 29, was conditionally allowed to return to the NFL after serving 18 months in prison for running a dog-fighting ring...
Keegan is smart about where she roots the suspense in her novel. Pip's Olympic quest may be ripped from Michael Phelps' headlines, but we don't have to sweat a photo finish. We know she'll get gold from the epigraph, a quote from her coach that's another deliciously ironic swipe at the double-edged sword of accomplishment: "If this exceptional athlete wore all the Olympic gold medals she has won in her long career and jumped find a pool, she would sink." What we find out is how much Pip's triumphs cost and how they change...
...another example, consider Michael and Kathryn Judge. The couple - a cardiac nurse and a nurse practitioner - bought a home in Boise's cottage-filled North End neighborhood in 1994. The Judges, members of that rare breed of Americans who stash a decent slug of income in savings, put down $50,000 and mortgaged the rest. A couple of years ago, they paid off the loan. "Friends used to say, you can cash out your equity and do so much stuff. You could travel," says Michael. "Well, instead of getting the four-wheelers and the boat, we paid off our house...
Among his friends, Michael is no longer the chump because now he's buying a new house, freshly marked down, in Hidden Springs, a Pleasantville-esque string of subdivisions tucked into the Boise foothills. The conscientious people who were prudent with their money are buying a nicer home. There's almost something quaint about it. Quaint and good...
...Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele being Facebook friends with Taitz: "The chairman has thousands of Facebook friends - obviously he is not going to agree with the agendas of all of them." - RNC press secretary Gail Gitcho (Politico, July...