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...Okay," I said, "I'll have a Coke...
...daughter. "Hey, sugar, it?s Daddy," he whispers into the phone. "Love you, miss you, kiss you goodnight." A burly teenager knocks at the door. "Are you the man?" he says. Newdow concedes that he probably is. "You don?t have to worry about anything," says the unknown teen. "Okay," Newdow smiles as he closes the door, "now I'm worried." And he sits back down with his guitar, singing a song he penned himself - the Pledge Of Allegiance Got Some Old Religion Blues- while threats of death and hellfire play on in the background...
...second dance chorus begins, the two face each other, this close, and stop, each briefly folding arms in a gesture of defiance or daring: okay, what'll you try now? The music persuades them to sway in syncopation, then to enlarge the movement, describing a circle as their arms swinging wider (right, left, four times each). They stop, twirl, clap hands simultaneously and (on "Oh what a break") do a ten-tap strut to the front of the gazebo, landing in synch on the right foot. The first time, Ginger had to undercut Fred's flourish; this time...
...Thisbe Nissen has heard all of the jokes. Friends persist in calling her new book "How to Cook Your Ex-Boyfriend." That's okay: Thisbe and her co-author Erin Ergenbright are having a great old time crisscrossing the country in a fabulous authors' tour for "The Ex-Boyfriend Cookbook: They Came, They Cooked, They Left...But We Ended up with Some Great Recipes (HarperCollins). Just two single 30-year-old women on the loose...
...EARLY DEADLINES] Field chiefs at 56 offices can now authorize a preliminary inquiry for 180 days and can okay two 90-day extensions. Most important, says an Ashcroft aide, "you don't have to have a crime to initiate a preliminary investigation...