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...interview with The Crimson, conducted in a dimly-lit parlor off the main hall of Loeb House, Summers was relaxed, joking about his press conference performance...
...trucks and lots of white people. (According to the 2000 census, fewer than 10,000 of the city's 58,342 residents are not white.) A ranching area turned bedroom community through modest white flight, Santee is a conservative haven where the sight of an old-time ice cream parlor is welcome but certain other sights are not. Overt racism, luckily, has gone out of style, but other types of intolerance have...
When President Bush (a.k.a. Bushie; Dubya) surveyed the sea of reporters at a press conference last week and asked, "Where's Stretch?" it revived interest in D.C.'s hottest parlor game: Guess the Nickname. "Stretch" is an easy one, if not especially original--it can apply to either David Gregory of NBC News or, as at the press confab, Richard Keil of Bloomberg. Both are about 6 ft. 6 in. Other nicknames are being overheard at photo ops, D.C. dinners and Cabinet meetings. While Bush's method appears scattershot, we have--eureka!--discerned a pattern to the moniker madness...
...straphanger standing on the bus because he couldn't get a seat is George Soros, the global financier who has the power to destroy a whole Asian economy with the click of a mouse. That guy in the pizza parlor who looks like Bill Gates - chances are it in fact is the world's richest man. The bearded guy who just skidded awkwardly by on the icy sidewalk - Saudi oil minister Ali Bin Ibrahim Al-Naimi, who with a couple of words into his a cell phone could drive up the price of gasoline at your local pump...
...slow," a former classmate said at the Oklahoma City home of Allen's mother. Mary Allen herself is marginally articulate. She sat barefoot in her parlor, crying at the mention of Wanda while a roach tiptoed over a grandchild's sneaker. A relative with Tourette's syndrome--one of several kin with disabilities--called, and the speaker phone broadcast a tirade in which he threatened a member of the defense team. "It's hard to believe," Presson said, "but Wanda Jean is the brain trust of that family...