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...child of the middle class with a friendly face and big hair, she is so affable that she once won Miss Congeniality in a beauty pageant. Her son is about to deploy to Iraq. She's an ice fisherman, a moose hunter, a small business owner and a lifetime NRA member. And she shelved her state's pork-laden Bridge to Nowhere that McCain has ridiculed on the trail...
...According to the HUPD police log, the individual was found to be the owner of the bicycle and an affiliate of the university after questioning by officers. The person has since been identified as a black high school student from the Boston area working at Harvard for the summer. Faust wrote that an investigation into the interaction between the officers and the student has been launched...
...mining town of Douglas, Ariz., just above the Mexican border, Emanuel Farber was born on Feb. 20, 1917, youngest of a store owner's three sons. "I had two brothers who were fiendishly good at almost everything they approached," he recalled in the Art in America interview, "and they were fiendishly competitive." Both of his elder siblings became psychiatrists; one, Leslie, was a distinguished author. "And I had a father who was equally competitive." Farber, Sr., originally from Vilna, Lithuania, had studied to be a rabbi, and schmoozing must have been in the syllabus. "I picked up the congenial element...
...find an authentic experience in a city that’s about as real as Vegas or Dubai.“This is my lowest price, I can go no lower, I could be killed, I cannot feed my family for any lower price,” the owner of a shop once said to me with tears welling in her eyes. I looked at the knock-off shoes I was bargaining for, sighed, and paid the price she was asking. As I walked away, I turned around to watch her and her co-worker giggle with excitement...
...like those are why Gabrovsek and Marefat have a 25-page agreement that spells out everything from how they pay for home repairs (fifty-fifty all the way) to what happens if one of them gets married (the husband has no claim on the house) or dies (the surviving owner has the right to buy the other half before it goes to next of kin). "People are friends, and they're honest people, but situations change," says Andy Sirkin, a real estate lawyer whose firm crafted the agreement. "You need to be ready...