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...forecourt were parked a collection of artillery and pickups mounted with heavy-caliber machine guns. Qanyere claimed to have 1,500 men. Asked about a government decree ordering national disarmament, he scoffed, "If you have two people and you take a weapon from one and I keep mine, what will happen? I will kill...
...evidence that the election had been stolen. And things took off. First, the reward attracted blogger Brad Friedman, who then co-founded the netroots voting-reform website VelvetRevolution.us with Kimberlin and serves as his face man. The reward attracted other donors (including a politically active relative of mine who last year introduced me to Kimberlin). And it produced several people who claimed to have information on problems with electronic voting. They were prominently displayed on Friedman's site, BradBlog.com Leveraging his website's popularity, Kimberlin made contact with congressional staff members and other activists, launching coordinated netroots campaigns...
...longing and regret, which suits a vocal style so intimate it was practically internal. Her beautiful "White Christmas" emphasizes the distance between the singer and the people she wants to be near. In the Jule Styne-Sammy Cahn "Christmas Waltz," the chorus goes: "And this song of mine / In three-quarter time / Wishes you the same thing too." But there's a tentative, almost skeptical tinge to those "wishes." She knew that, even (or especially) at Christmas, grownups don't get everything they hope...
What’s in a name?A quick internet search tells me that mine might refer to anything from Scottish nobility to an Australian Olympian to a small town in Iowa. In pop culture, I’ve been everything from a mathematician to a dysfunctional kid genius to a dead child psychologist.But after nearly two decades, my name—unique spelling and all—is something that has become a part of who I am. A name isn’t something that should be changed on a whim or disregarded, and it?...
...slightly…less so genuine), and to those who were lampooned (ahem) and had the good humor to laugh about it. It’s been real, whatever that means. See you all at senior bar.Dear Sara,I’m having this terrible dilemma. A friend of mine said something truly incriminating at dinner—you know, the sort of brilliant comment that deserves a public forum. Upon returning to my room I went on facebook.com to put it up on his wall for all to see and admire. But it seems he doesn?...