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...four days in Shanghai were also supposed to reassure Americans half a world away that life was getting back to normal. It couldn't have started on a worse day. As the President's chopper took off from the White House last Wednesday, the war at home was breaking out all over. The number of people exposed to anthrax on Capitol Hill was mushrooming, and the leaders with whom he had breakfast that morning were thinking of a temporary lockdown on Capitol Hill. Bush called the Vice President to get an update on the victim count as he flew...
...Soon after that call, Bush learned the number was higher. There would be renewed questions, thought aides, about whether Bush should be taking the trip. It's a balance they have wrestled with since the day of the attack: trying to look normal without looking out of touch and out of place. They'd discussed that issue earlier in the week, but no one was thinking of shutting down the China trip. It had been decided days ago that China and Russia were more important to a multi- year, multi-prong campaign than any heat taken from a few days...
...unsettling and unspeakably sad...That said, the humor is slowing returning to our workplace (and I work in a government agency, so believe me, there’s a lot here to inspire laughter!), and we need Modern Humorist to help get us back to some version of our normal, disfunctional [sic] selves. I applaud your decision to place political leaders off limits for now, and hope that when the time feels right, you’ll once again exercise that very American right to speak your mind, no matter how irreverently. Thanks again and God be with...
...We’re definitely going to have things next [semester] to show that we’re normal, we’re not a bunch of terrorists,” she says...
...have a lot of talented players, more than can play in a normal game,” Wheaton said. “It’s huge [that they get to play], because they are going to be asked to win games for us in the future. Everyone played today, and you couldn’t tell the difference between the starters and the reserves...