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...Your last two books have been about baseball and football. When you had a son after two daughters, were you cheering in your mind? No, but I often have a delayed reaction to things. And now, yes - because he's obsessed with sports. He is going to be an athlete. The girls are also very athletic, but it's different. He's like I was. All he wants to do is go out, find a basketball hoop and shoot at it a hundred hours at a time. There is no question that there is a wavelength that we are both...
Read "Inside the Autistic Mind...
...Eliot Engel, who chairs the subcommittee, said there should have been an anti-gunrunning strategy in place since October 2007, when the U.S. and Mexico agreed to the joint cartel-fighting Merida initiative. "It is mind-boggling that for a year and a half, we have had no interagency strategy to address this major problem, but instead have relied on uncoordinated efforts by a variety of agencies," Engel, D-N.Y., said in a statement...
...polite prototype of the north Tehran élite. These were people - like the two former Presidents who backed his campaign, Rafsanjani and Mohammed Khatami - who seemed as concerned with Ahmadinejad's crude populist style as with his crude populist economics. Mousavi's wife inadvertently made plain the mind-set when I asked her about her husband's art and she told me, "Artists exist at the very top of a society. When an artist becomes President, it is a step down. But there's no way out. For the happiness of the people, it is necessary...
...Which may be exactly what the Supreme Leader - who is the real power in Iran, with control over the military, the judiciary, foreign policy and the nuclear program - had in mind when, on June 13, he prematurely certified the phantasmic Ahmadinejad landslide. In the days before the election, reformers and principalists - including several Ahmadinejad advisers - told me that negotiations with the U.S. were likely, regardless of who won. "But it might be easier for the Supreme Leader to proceed if the tough guy is re-elected than if Mousavi is," said Mohebbian, the prominent principalist. "The negotiating team will...