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Lowery says his father--a former CIA employee--and his next-door neighbor, Byron White--a U.S. Supreme Court justice for more than...
Since Kashmir erupted in 1989, India has pointed a blunt and unwavering finger at Pakistan, accusing its neighbor of fomenting the entire problem. It's a large and cynical exaggeration: anti-Indian sentiment runs high within Kashmir, and in the first half of the 1990s, Kashmiris themselves provided the steam in the anti-Indian militant movement. They were disorganized and willing to murder, but passionate and anxious to plead their nationalist cause with the outside world...
...watched the New York Giants run around like Lilliputians in the hands of Ray Lewis and the Baltimore Ravens, I was forced to hear my neighbor ravenously slurp salsa off his fingertips. For some, the day becomes a covert Budweiser-consumption competition. For others, any sign of physical weakness in the football players elicits a joyous chorus of "sissy" and "wimp." When the quarterback of the Ravens hustled off the field to get an x-ray of his left hand, a resident Hercules yelled, "Put on a bandage and suck it up. This is the damn Super Bowl...
...Davis became a power broker. Literally. He got on the phone and had some juice shifted to the needy north from South California Edison; then he wheedled 133 megawatts from an out-of-state generator, as if he were borrowing a cup of sugar from a neighbor. The lights didn't go out that day, but from that moment it became clear that Davis' political future would be calibrated in megawatts--or the lack thereof...
...most part remained just that. New York City is facing an electricity shortage this summer. In the Northwest, Oregon and Washington, which typically import power from California in the winter, have recently been sending juice south and find themselves exposed to a cruel market driven up by their neighbor's woes. "Retail utilities may lack the financial resources to purchase needed supplies or build the generation we all agree is necessary," Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber wrote in a letter to outgoing Energy Secretary Bill Richardson last month...